Risk assessment and treatment in Dutch forensic psychiatry

Ruiter, Corine de; Hildebrand, Martín

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“…In Dutch forensic psychiatry, structured risk assessment tools are generally used as guidance in treatment and risk management of inpatients and outpatients (de Ruiter & Hildebrand, 2007; Hildebrand, Hesper, Spreen, & Nijman, 2005; Philipse, 2006). In the Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ; Webster, Douglas, Eaves, & Hart, 1997) approach to risk assessment, two types of risk factors are distinguished: static and dynamic.…”

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Social ties and short‐term self‐reported delinquent behaviour of personality disordered forensic outpatients

Bouman¹,

Ruiter

Schene

2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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Purpose. In community‐based forensic psychiatry, patients' social ties are considered as protective factor in a risk management strategy. However, it is unknown whether these ties actually assist patients to refrain from re‐offending. We hypothesised a protective role for social ties in re‐offending behaviour. Methods. In a sample of forensic outpatients with a personality disorder (N = 55), the relationship between social ties (social contacts and participation in social institutions) and short‐term self‐reported re‐offences was studied within a prospective study design with a 6‐month follow‐up period. Results. Our results provide evidence for a protective function of club participation. For violent re‐offences, social institutions were protective and this protective function remained, even when a patient had network members with a criminal background. Except for work‐related contacts, social contacts did not provide protection. Conclusions. The protective effect of social ties, especially club participation, on desistance from re‐offending in forensic psychiatric patients merits further attention from researchers and clinicians.

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Social ties and short‐term self‐reported delinquent behaviour of personality disordered forensic outpatients

Bouman¹,

Ruiter

Schene

2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…In order to understand this complex concept it is important to consider subcomponents or subtypes of violent behaviour. For instance, according to some authors (e.g., Jones & Viding, 2007) not identifying these subtypes may explain the low treatment response often reported in the literature (e.g., Harris & Rice, 2006;de Ruiter & Hildebrand, 2007). In line with this notion Walsh et al (2007) have stressed the importance of dividing psychopathy into several subcomponents regarding the relationship with violence.…”

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“…And focusing on the treatment of criminal psychopathic behaviour, can violence be treated? In the final contribution to this special issue, De Ruiter and Hildebrand (2007) give an overview of the current state of affairs in the area of treatment and risk assessment in forensic psychiatry. The authors state that effectiveness studies regarding treatment in forensic hospitals are sparse and consist largely of naturalistic pre-post designs.…”

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Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 2007, number 4 Victims of our brain: born or made a criminal?

Cima¹

2007

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Forensic psychology is a broad spectrum of topics related to both psychology and law issues. One of the more clinical issues involved in forensic psychology is the concept of criminal behaviour, in particular psychopathy. Although the construct of psychopathy has been the subject of a great deal of research, much still remains unclear. Biological factors such as genetics and HPA axis (re)activity seem to play an important role in the development of criminal psychopathic behaviour. The relationship between violence recidivism and psychopathy, and the fact that psychopaths lack moral emotions are important risk factors in the maintenance of criminal behaviour. Given the heterogeneity of psychopathic offenders, the effect of treatment still remains unclear. Consequently, the question arises whether we all are victims of our brain and, thus, treatment of criminal behaviour is useless. Or whether it is possible to alter criminal behaviour? In addition to this discussion, an overview of the content of this special issue will be presented. (Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 63,(112)(113)(114)(115)(116) Forensic psychology constitutes a broad spectrum of issues in the boarder context of psychology and law. For instance, it includes topics such as profiling, interrogation techniques, criminal behaviour, and eyewitness testimonies. This special issue 'Forensic psychology; new developments in theory and research', focuses on criminal behaviour, and in particular psychopathy. There are several motives behind choosing this specific topic. First, criminal violent behaviour represents the core issue within forensic psychology. Without criminals, there is no need for forensic psychologists. Secondly, criminal behaviour is a very complicated concept. Much is still unclear about the aetiology, development, and treatment of psychopathic offenders. Therefore, we have chosen to focus on the developmental aspects, risk factors and treatment of criminal, psychopathic behaviour. More specifically, this special issue highlights a number of topics from various themes. First developmental studies on psychopathic, criminal behaviour are included. These focus on young childhood (relationship with conduct disorder) and on adolescence (biological aspects). Since psychopathic traits in adults predict a particularly severe and violent pattern of antisocial behaviour that is resistant to many intervention approaches (Hart, Kropp & Hare, 1988;Harris & Rice, 2006;Serin, 1993), several articles are included in which the focus lies on the adult psychopath (relationship between psychopathy and violence, moral emotions, and brain imaging research of violent behaviour). Besides this developmental approach in which several aspects related to psychopathic behaviour are described in children, adolescents and adults, this special issue also includes a biological as well as a more cognitive line of approach in which most recent developments regarding theory and research of criminal behaviour are presented. Finally, the question whether criminal behaviour ca...

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“…The Tbs serves as an obligatory penal measure for mentally disordered offenders who have committed severe, usually violent, crime (Kogel & Den Hartogh, 2005). Offenders serving Tbs are incarcerated because the court perceives them as a risk to society concerning their recidivism risk without treatment (De Ruiter & Hildebrand, 2007). Offenders in the penitentiary care unit have been relocated in this unit by local penitentiaries because of unmanageable (mostly aggressive) behavior, a need for extra care, or the need of extra diagnostic information.…”

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Explosive Matters: Does Venting Anger Reduce or Increase Aggression? Differences in Anger Venting Effects in Violent Offenders

Tonnaer

Cima

Arntz

2019

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

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The current study aims to investigate if venting anger reduces or increases aggression. Therefore, we allowed venting anger and measured its effect on aggression after two different anger provocation paradigms in a sample of forensic psychiatric offenders (FPO, N = 45) and penitentiary offenders (PO, N = 22). These provocation paradigms included an Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations (ATSS) comprising anger stories, and a harassing body opponent bag (BOB) measuring punching force. To determine aggression pre/post provocation, implicit anger and self-reported aggression was assessed. Further, the relation between provocation paradigm response, aggression, and psychopathy was evaluated. Results indicate that venting anger reduces aggression in FPO, but not in PO, where even evidence for increase in one aggression index was found. Furthermore, groups differed in immediate responses during provocation, with FPO showing significantly more verbal aggressive responses during ATSS but less physically aggressive responses during BOB than PO. Moreover, results show a correlation between automatic cognitive anger biases during provocation and psychopathy in FPO. In PO, aggressive behavioral intentions and anger control problems during provocation were both related to self-reported aggression. For clinical practice, ATSS could be utilized as a paradigm exploring the actual state of specific cognitive biases toward anger.

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Risk assessment and treatment in Dutch forensic psychiatry

Cited by 21 publications

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Social ties and short‐term self‐reported delinquent behaviour of personality disordered forensic outpatients

Social ties and short‐term self‐reported delinquent behaviour of personality disordered forensic outpatients

Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 2007, number 4 Victims of our brain: born or made a criminal?

Explosive Matters: Does Venting Anger Reduce or Increase Aggression? Differences in Anger Venting Effects in Violent Offenders

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