...Irma Melunovic; Carol A. Ireland; Jane L. Ireland Purpose Aggression within secure settings poses considerable concern. This study aims to offer more recent considerations of factors, such as cultural and environmental, that contribute to the prediction of aggressive security incidents, focusing...

...Gavin Frost; Rebecca Trant; Jacob Seaward Purpose Understanding of wellbeing has improved in recent years, and the literature has established some links between wellbeing and aggression, which appears to be theoretically supported. “Hedonia” (maximising positive emotions and minimising negative...

...Laura Khalil; Joao Da Silva Guerreiro Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of the literature on the variables associated with self-harm and aggression in women who committed a criminal offence. Design/methodology/approach Studies were identified through online...

... analysed and the severity was coded with the modified observed aggression scale+ (MOAS+). Findings In this period, 299 incidents of self-injury were recorded, displayed by 106 patients. Most of these incidents (87.6%) were classified as non-suicidal. Methods most often used were skin cutting with glass...

...Jessica Holley; James Tapp; Simon Draycott Purpose Coercive practices – which are used as means to manage violent/aggressive behaviour in secure forensic settings – have come under scrutiny in recent years due to their paradoxical effects on provoking further service user aggression and violence...

... Licensed re-use rights only Aggression High secure psychiatric care Seclusion Executive functioning Cognitive skills Long-term segregation Neuropsychological testing Reducing restrictive practices Within the UK, High Secure Psychiatric Care (HSPC) represents the highest level...

...Annette Greenwood; Louise Braham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to undertake a systematic literature review to appraise the current evidence relating to the factors associated with violence and aggression in adult psychiatric hospital inpatient settings. Design/methodology/approach...

... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Risk assessment HCR-20 Violence Risk management Aggression Survey Structured professional judgement (SPJ) approaches are recommended for the assessment of risk for violence among criminal justice and mental health...

...Geoff Dickens; Marco Picchioni; Clive Long Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how aggressive and violent incidents differ across specialist gender, security and mental health/learning disability pathways in specialist secure care. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

... of the methodology. Findings Support was found for the reliability of staff ratings of the relevance of identified early warning signs and their occurrence within a specified time period. ROC analysis indicates some modest predictive validity in predicting aggressive risk behaviours but effect sizes were small...

...Joanne Steward; Franco Follina This review collates the empirical evidence on the behavioural effects of media violence. It assesses the content of different forms of media to which patients in secure services could be exposed. Numerous explanations for behaving aggressively are examined, using...