Adherence to planned risk management interventions in Swedish forensic care: What is said and done according to patient records
2019 (English)In: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, ISSN 0160-2527, E-ISSN 1873-6386, Vol. 64, p. 71-82Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Both structured and unstructured clinical risk assessments within forensic care aim to prevent violence by informing risk management, but research about their preventive role is inconclusive. The aim of this study was to investigate risk management interventions that were planned and realized during forensic care by analysing patient records. Records from a forensic clinic in Sweden, covering 14 patients and 526 months, were reviewed. Eight main types of risk management interventions were evaluated by content analysis: monitoring, supervision, assessment, treatment, victim protection, acute coercion, security level and police interventions. Most planned risk management interventions were realized, both in structured and clinical risk assessments. However, most realized interventions were not planned, making them more open to subjective decisions. Analysing risk management interventions actually planned and realized in clinical settings can reveal the preventive role of structured risk assessments and how different interventions mediate violence risk.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019. Vol. 64, p. 71-82
Keywords [en]
Forensic care, Risk assessment, Risk management, Violence risk, adult, article, clinical article, clinical assessment, content analysis, female, human, male, medical record, monitoring, persuasive communication, police, Sweden, victim, violence
National Category
Forensic Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43330DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.02.003ISI: 000470949900009PubMedID: 31122642Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85062027323OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-43330DiVA, id: diva2:1295984
2019-03-132019-03-132019-06-27Bibliographically approved