S. Verschueren, I. Jeandarme, Ruben van den Ameele, Bert Buysschaert, S. Bogaerts
{"title":"Patient profiles in high-security forensic psychiatry in Flanders","authors":"S. Verschueren, I. Jeandarme, Ruben van den Ameele, Bert Buysschaert, S. Bogaerts","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2124549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2124549","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research emphasizes the importance of personalized treatment in forensic psychiatry. However, the heterogeneity of forensic patients regarding psychopathology, offenses and risk and protective factors makes it difficult to provide personalized treatment. To facilitate the treatment indication process, previous research has developed patient profiles with corresponding treatment trajectories to compare individual patients with more homogeneous groups. The current study applied latent class analysis in 399 high-security patients in the two Forensic Psychiatric Centres in Flanders, based on their psychopathology, criminal history and risk and protective factors (Historical Clinical Future - Revised; HKT-R). Five patient profiles were found: the antisocial patient, the psychotic patient with diverse criminal behaviour, the patient with a personality disorder and multiple problems, the psychotic patient with physical violent crimes and the patient with a paraphilic disorder and sexual crimes. Similarities and differences from previous research and the importance to clinical practice and research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47835711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hedayat Selim, Julia Korkman, Peter Nynäs, Elina Pirjatanniemi, J. Antfolk
{"title":"A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion","authors":"Hedayat Selim, Julia Korkman, Peter Nynäs, Elina Pirjatanniemi, J. Antfolk","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2116611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2116611","url":null,"abstract":"Religious persecution is a leading cause of global displacement. In the absence of supporting evidence, presenting a credible oral asylum claim based on religion is a difficult task for asylum-seekers. Asylum officials, in turn, face considerable challenges in evaluating the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to determine their eligibility for refugee status. We reviewed 21 original manuscripts addressing credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion. We focused on (a) interviewers’ methods of eliciting a claim of religion; (b) their credibility assessments of particularly complex asylum claims, namely those based on religious conversion, unfamiliar religions, and non-belief; and (c) issues related to the presence of an interpreter. We found deviations in officials’ assessment patterns from established knowledge in legal psychology and religious studies. Closer collaboration between asylum practitioners and researchers in these fields is needed to improve the validity and reliability of credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48691494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological factors predicting self-reported and observed aggression in male forensic psychiatric inpatients","authors":"R. Hornsveld, F. Kraaimaat","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2116610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2116610","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the psychological determinants of self-reported and observed aggression in male violent forensic psychiatric inpatients. Baseline data came from 232 inpatients referred to a cognitive–behavioral treatment program. Linear regression models were used to assess the relationship between the patients’ psychological characteristics and aggressive behavior. Self-reported aggression was studied with cross-sectional data, while the inpatients’ observed aggression in the ward was investigated with prospective data. The main factors contributing to the prediction of self-reported aggression were state anger, antisocial lifestyle and agreeableness, while the main factors contributing to the prediction of observed aggression were trait anger and agreeableness. The findings support the focus of treatment programs for forensic psychiatric inpatients on anger management.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47406744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Casey A Pederson, Rebecca L Griffith, Sarah Nowalis, Paula J Fite
{"title":"Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type.","authors":"Casey A Pederson, Rebecca L Griffith, Sarah Nowalis, Paula J Fite","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2116609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2116609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rich line of criminological theories and research has suggested that individual characteristics may be important to predicting criminal activity. However, there is limited research examining how individual characteristics may be related to the type of crime committed (e.g. violent, sex, drug). To provide guidance to these questions, the current set of two studies used latent profile analysis to identify groups of offenders based on individual factors (i.e. proactive and reactive aggression, and callous-unemotional traits), chosen for their interrelatedness and their established associations with crime, and examined whether these groups relate to type, severity or the number of crimes committed across two studies. In both studies, four groups of offenders were identified, but these groups were not associated with offending behaviors or patterns. Findings and implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"713-736"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512917/pdf/TPPL_30_2116609.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41106276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Nieuwkamp, Robert Horselenberg, Peter van Koppen
{"title":"You don't know: knowledge as supportive alibi evidence.","authors":"Ricardo Nieuwkamp, Robert Horselenberg, Peter van Koppen","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2116608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2116608","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Until now, supportive evidence for alibis has been conceptualised into two distinct types: witness and physical evidence. The present study examined whether knowledge, as a third type of supportive evidence, can contribute to the understanding of evidence for alibis. Three experiments were conducted in which police detectives, laypersons and undergraduate students were asked to evaluate four alibis with witness, physical or knowledge supportive evidence, or with no supportive evidence. The results from the three experiments show that knowledge evidence is equally believable as strong witness evidence. We also found that not all items of strong physical evidence are evaluated as equally strong and believable. We therefore suggest adjusting the criteria to determine the strength of physical evidence and conducting more research on knowledge evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"695-712"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512775/pdf/TPPL_30_2116608.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41120159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians","authors":"S. Crowe","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2116612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2116612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"29 1","pages":"976 - 979"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49617299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grant A Blake, James R P Ogloff, Natalia Antolak-Saper
{"title":"Special considerations to the assessment of fitness to stand trial in Australia.","authors":"Grant A Blake, James R P Ogloff, Natalia Antolak-Saper","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2100839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2100839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Australian criminal law presumes that defendants are fit to stand trial until proven otherwise on the balance of probabilities. Forensic mental health experts often provide opinions to the court about defendants' fitness, which requires them to understand the legal context within which the court decides the defendant's fitness status. This article outlines important case law considerations to the assessment of fitness in Australia, including the notions that fitness must be evaluated when there is a 'real and substantial question', assessments should be 'reasonable and common sense' and accommodations should be considered when impairments in capacity are evident. The essentially negligible impact of delusions, an unhelpful defence, unmanageable behaviour and poor defendant-lawyer relationship are also considered. Finally, precedent is reviewed for the use of the <i>Presser</i> standards in New Zealand and other pacific jurisdictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"679-694"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512877/pdf/TPPL_30_2100839.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41177459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Yee, Prabin Chemjong, Daria Korobanova, Suki Scade, Matthew Large, Olav Nielssen, Vaughan Carr, Kimberlie Dean
{"title":"The full spectrum of clinical stages of psychosis among mentally ill prisoners in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.","authors":"Natalia Yee, Prabin Chemjong, Daria Korobanova, Suki Scade, Matthew Large, Olav Nielssen, Vaughan Carr, Kimberlie Dean","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2073284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2073284","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on the association between psychosis and criminal offending has typically focused on violent offenders with chronic psychotic illness. This stages of psychosis in prison (SOPP) study used a clinical staging approach to identify adult men referred to prison mental health services who had an at-risk mental state (ARMS), first episode of psychosis (FEP) or an established psychotic illness. Of the 105 participants included, 6% were determined to have FEP, 6% met ARMS criteria and the remainder had an established psychotic illness. Compared to a prison control sample, individuals on the psychosis spectrum were found to have higher levels of social disadvantage and other co-occurring mental health and substance use problems but were not more likely to have committed a violent offence. These findings support the notion that risk of criminal justice contact and complex illness burden exist across the full spectrum of psychotic illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"600-617"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512751/pdf/TPPL_30_2073284.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41158931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sharon Reutens, Tony Butler, Ye In Jane Hwang, Adrienne Withall
{"title":"A comparison of older and younger offenders with delusional jealousy.","authors":"Sharon Reutens, Tony Butler, Ye In Jane Hwang, Adrienne Withall","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2073285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2073285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We sought to determine whether or not there were differences in medical, criminological and legal factors between older and younger offenders with diagnoses of delusional jealousy by undertaking a retrospective case-file search of Australian legal databases. Our results demonstrate that older offenders were more likely to have comorbid dementia whereas younger offenders were more likely to have comorbid substance use and chronic psychotic conditions. A history of domestic violence frequently predated the index offence but we were unable to determine if this was due to psychosis or a pre-existing tendency for violence. Despite a common diagnosis, the older offenders were more likely to be made forensic patients rather than sentenced prisoners when compared with the younger offenders. Consequently, different factors might mediate the pathway to violence in older and younger people suffering from delusional jealousy and could be additional targets for clinical intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"618-631"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512789/pdf/TPPL_30_2073285.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41175025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie Dartnall, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Judith Gullifer
{"title":"Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence.","authors":"Stephanie Dartnall, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Judith Gullifer","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2085208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2085208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In some Australian and international jurisdictions, coroners can deliver a legal determination of death whilst a person remains missing. Empirical attention to this unique area of law is sparse. Semi-structured interviews with 22 coronial professionals in New South Wales (NSW), Australia revealed their views about suspected death inquests, the impact of this judicial process on family well-being and measures to support and inform relatives in the coroner's court. Thematic analysis yielded five themes: (1) Information to the greatest extent possible; (2) Timeliness; (3) Opportunity to share their views; (4) In the public arena; and (5) Treat people like human beings. The professionals believed that relatives derive therapeutic benefit from timely, sensitive, comprehensible proceedings with opportunities for ritual, meaningful participation and fresh evidence whereas insensitive, incomprehensible and/or untimely proceedings magnify distress. Our findings promote understanding of trauma-informed practices which could mitigate harm to court participants and benefit other courts and jurisdictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 5","pages":"655-678"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512802/pdf/TPPL_30_2085208.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41166228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}