BackgroundIt is now accepted that people with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to
be violent than other members of the general population. A less acknowledged fact is that …

BackgroundPrevious work on the reliability of mental capacity assessments in patients with
psychiatric illness has been limited.AimsTo describe the interrater reliability of two …

Background UK government proposals to reduce the risks posed by people with "dangerous"
severe personality disorders (DSPD) include a new legal framework for indeterminate …

Recently adopted statistical approaches improve researchers’ ability to describe what is, and
what is not, possible in the prediction of violence by psychiatric patients. At the base rates …

BackgroundRates of violence in persons identified as high risk by structured risk assessment
instruments (SRAIs) are uncertain and frequently unreported by validation studies.AimsTo …

The role of remorse in judicial decisions in the criminal justice system has been addressed
in scholarship and remains controversial. The purpose of this qualitative research was to …

The prominence of risk in UK social and criminal justice policy creates opportunities, challenges
and dangers for forensic psychiatry. The future standing of the specialty will depend not …

BACKGROUND: Assessing mental capacity involves complex judgements, and there is little
available information on inter-rater reliability of capacity assessments. Assessment tools …

An assessment schedule was used to determine the nature of insight in 91 mixed psychotic
patients, and to examine its distribution and associations. While all the components of the …

Background Although mental incapacity is becoming increasingly important in clinical practice,
little information is available on its frequency in medical inpatients. We aimed to estimate …