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Publications

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• Risk Assessment Instruments in Repeat Offending: The Usefulness of FOTRES.
  "International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 2010 Feb 11. [Epub ahead of print]
  Research in the area of predicting recidivism has produced several well-validated standardized risk assessment instruments. The question arises, which instruments best serve which purposes. The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare several actuarial and dynamic risk assessment instruments as to their predictive accuracy and their usefulness in forensic practice. The sample consisted of 109 violent and sex offenders who had been released from prison in Switzerland between 1994 and 1999, and for whom the PCL-R, HCR-20, LSI-R, VRAG, and the FOTRES were scored. Using bivariate logistic regression analyses, all instruments were able to discriminate between recidivists and non-recidivists. The ROC analyses yielded AUC values between 0.70 (VRAG) and 0.84 (PCL-R). Furthermore, it was shown that solely examining AUC values does not suffice to determine usefulness. A comprehensive evaluation of an instrument’s usefulness for forensic practice should also look at qualitative criteria such as area of application, specificity of risk assessed, inclusion of dynamic items, among others."
• "Violence in sleep"
  Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie 2009, 160(8)
  "The present review outlines the different sleep disorders associated with
  violence, and aims to provide information on diagnosis, therapy and forensic
  issues. It also discusses current physiopathological models, establishing a
  link between sleep-related violence and violence observed in other settings."
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• "Women convicted for violent offenses: Adverse childhood, low level of education and poor mental health"
  BMC Psychiatry 2009, 9(81)
  "Compared to male offenders, females convicted of violent offences are less educated, had more negative childhood experiences, and have worse mental health, suggesting this should be consdiered in treatment plans and intervention strategies." » Article
  

List of Publications

Our research team has published studies in international journals on various subjects within forensic psychiatry & psychology as well as general psychiatry.

You can find a complete list of publications for each of the authors under their respective CVs under the heading 'Team'.

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