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Women convicted for violent offenses: adverse childhood experiences, low level of education and poor mental healthAstrid Rossegger
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Criminal Justice System, Canton of Zurich, Feldstrasse 42, Zurich, 8090, Switzerland
BMC Psychiatry 9:81. 2009..The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of female violent offending in a Swiss offender population and to compare possible socio-demographic and offense-related gender differences...
[Prison violence: prevalence, manifestation and risk factors]J Endrass
Psychiatrisch Psychologischer Dienst Justizdirektion Kanton Zürich
Praxis (Bern 1994) 98:1279-83. 2009..International studies have identified various risk factors. However, due to the aforementioned differences in facilities, these predictors can only partly be transferred to a Swiss setting...
Are behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence associated with bipolar disorder in early adulthood?Jerome Endrass
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Crime Prevention Research Unit, Feldstrasse 42, 8090 Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:217-21. 2007..6-3.5 times more likely to experience a bipolar II disorder than those with no indication of conduct problems. Sensitivity analysis showed that the conduct problems were not the result of low socio-economic status...
The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offendingJerome Endrass
Department of Justice, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Psychiatry 9:43. 2009..The aim of this study was to examine the recidivism rates for hands-on and hands-off sex offenses in a sample of child pornography users using a 6 year follow-up design...
The prediction of criminal recidivism: the implication of sampling in prognostic modelsFrank Urbaniok
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Zurich Department of Justice, Zurich, Switzerland
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:129-34. 2007..The aim of this study was to examine how sensitive prognostic models are to the calibration sample...
Posttraumatic stress disorder in a Swiss offender populationFrank Urbaniok
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Zurich Department of Justice, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 137:151-6. 2007..Lifetime prevalence varies between 33% and 36%, and point prevalence between 17% and 21%. The aim of this study was to examine whether these findings are applicable to offenders detained in Switzerland...
[The predictive quality of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) for violent and sex offenders in Switzerland. A validation study]F Urbaniok
Psychiatrisch Psychologischer Dienst Justizvollzug, Kanton Zürich, 8090 Zurich, Switzerland
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 75:155-9. 2007..The use of precise cut-off scores did not prove to be a valid criterion for the prognosis of recidivism and can therefore not be recommended for Swiss offenders...
[The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) - a tool for the risk assessment of violent offenders]A Rossegger
Psychiatrisch Psychologischer Dienst, Justizvollzug Kanton Zürich
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 77:577-84. 2009..Most instruments used for assessing the recidivism risk of an offender with a violent or sex offense have been developed and validated in North America...
[Forensic risk calculation: basic methodological aspects for the evaluation of the applicability and validity of diverse methods]F Urbaniok
Justizvollzug Kanton Zürich, Psychiatrisch Psychologischer Dienst, Feldstrasse 42, Zurich
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 76:470-7. 2008..Many of these criteria have been ignored so far in the scientific discourse even though they are essential to the evaluation of the validity and the scope of indication of an instrument...
[From victim to offender: characteristics of sexually abused violent and sex offenders]A Rossegger
Psychiatrisch Psychologischer Dienst, Amt für Justizvollzug, Feldstrasse 42, 8090, Zurich, Schweiz
Nervenarzt 82:866-72. 2011..Prospective studies on victims of sexual abuse and retrospective studies on offender populations have indicated a connection between experiences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and delinquency in adulthood...
Predicting violent infractions in a Swiss state penitentiary: a replication study of the PCL-R in a population of sex and violent offendersJerome Endrass
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Criminal Justice System, Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Psychiatry 8:74. 2008..Results seem to indicate that the instrument is better suited for predicting verbal rather than physical aggression of prison inmates...
Using the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) to predict in-prison aggressive behavior in a Swiss offender populationJerome Endrass
Criminal Justice System, Psychiatric Psychological Service, Zurich, Switzerland
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 52:81-9. 2008..The implications of these findings for institutional risk management and the future development of intramural detection of participants at risk in the German-speaking part of Europe are discussed...
Violent and sexual offences: a validation of the predictive quality of the PCL:SV in SwitzerlandFrank Urbaniok
Psychiatric Psychological Service, Zurich Justice Department, Postfach, CH 8090 Zurich, Switzerland
Int J Law Psychiatry 30:147-52. 2007..69). This degree of accuracy demonstrates the PCL:SV's usefulness for risk assessment of sexual and violent delinquency in the Swiss cultural and German language area...
