Citation

Persson M, Belfrage H, Fredriksson B, Kristiansson M. Int. J. Forensic Ment. Health 2017; 16(2): 117-129.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Simon Fraser University - Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/14999013.2016.1266420

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This prospective, naturalistic, cohort study was designed to report the one-year rate of violence among Swedish forensic psychiatric clients, during forensic psychiatric care, prison, and probation. Another purpose was to validate the risk assessment instruments COVR, LSI-R, HCR-20V3, and SAPROF in these settings. We assessed 200 detainees undergoing a forensic psychiatric investigation in Stockholm by means of the four instruments, 193 of them were followed up for one year. Violent acts were committed by 23.3% of the participants, and occurred more often at forensic psychiatric hospitals than correctional settings. According to the analyses, the predictive validity was small for COVR (AUC =.61), medium for LSI-R (AUC =.70), and large for HCR-20V3 (AUC =.79) and SAPROF (AUC =.78).

Language: en

Keywords

forensic psychiatry; risk assessment; Violence