TY - JOUR
T1 - Violence risk profile of medium- and high-security NGRI offenders in Belgium
AU - Pham, Thierry
AU - Habets, Petra
AU - Saloppé, Xavier
AU - Ducro, Claire
AU - Delaunoit, Benjamin
AU - Pouls, Claudia
AU - Jeandarme, Inge
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by Limburg Sterk Merk (LSM) and the Public Psychiatric Care Center Rekem (OPZC Rekem). We wish to thank the forensic units, clinicians and clients that participated in the study, namely Sint-Kamillus (Bierbeek), OPZC Rekem and Sint-Jan-Baptist (Zelzate). This study was made possible with support of the Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity of the Walloon Region of Belgium. The authors are grateful to the medical, paramedical, nursing staff and clients of the ‘Les Marronniers’ regional psychiatric center for their collaboration.
Funding Information:
This project was funded by Limburg Sterk Merk (LSM) and the Public Psychiatric Care Center Rekem (OPZC Rekem). We wish to thank the forensic units, clinicians and clients that participated in the study, namely Sint-Kamillus (Bierbeek), OPZC Rekem and Sint-Jan-Baptist (Zelzate). This study was made possible with support of the Ministry of Health, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunity of the Walloon Region of Belgium. The authors are grateful to the medical, paramedical, nursing staff and clients of the ?Les Marronniers? regional psychiatric center for their collaboration.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - Under Belgian law, offenders not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are committed by the courts to forensic mental health treatment. The use of violence risk assessment tools has become routine in these settings. However, there are no national statistics regarding violence risk assessment in the Belgian forensic population. A study was undertaken to collect risk assessment data (PCL-R, VRAG, HCR-20) on a large cohort of forensic patients committed to Medium Security units in the Flanders region and in High-Security units in the Walloon region. Flemish patients were expected to present a lower risk compared with their Walloon counterparts. Instead, data yielded by a structured risk assessment method demonstrate the opposite. Moreover, the majority of patients in Flemish facilities had committed violent offenses and were institutionalized for shorter periods whereas the majority of Walloon patients had committed sexual offenses and were institutionalized for markedly longer periods.
AB - Under Belgian law, offenders not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are committed by the courts to forensic mental health treatment. The use of violence risk assessment tools has become routine in these settings. However, there are no national statistics regarding violence risk assessment in the Belgian forensic population. A study was undertaken to collect risk assessment data (PCL-R, VRAG, HCR-20) on a large cohort of forensic patients committed to Medium Security units in the Flanders region and in High-Security units in the Walloon region. Flemish patients were expected to present a lower risk compared with their Walloon counterparts. Instead, data yielded by a structured risk assessment method demonstrate the opposite. Moreover, the majority of patients in Flemish facilities had committed violent offenses and were institutionalized for shorter periods whereas the majority of Walloon patients had committed sexual offenses and were institutionalized for markedly longer periods.
KW - Forensic psychiatry
KW - NGRI offenders
KW - violence risk profile
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060695534&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14789949.2019.1570540
DO - 10.1080/14789949.2019.1570540
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060695534
SN - 1478-9949
VL - 30
SP - 530
EP - 550
JO - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
JF - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
IS - 3
ER -
