Victim-offender contact has been studied extensively in prisons, but research on contact between victims and mentally disordered offenders in forensic mental health settings is lacking. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted on contact between victims and offenders in four Dutch forensic psychiatric …

Recidivism of female systematic offenders

In dit onderzoek wordt beoogd de vraag: ‘Wat draagt de reclassering bij aan toeleiding naar werk van first offenders die voor het delict huiselijk geweld een reclasseringstoezicht opgelegd hebben gekregen?’ te beantwoorden. Deze scriptie is geschreven als afstudeeropdracht voor de hbo-opleiding Sociaal …

Uit onderzoek van Denninson, Stewart en Hurren (2006) blijkt dat het geven van waarschuwingen (reprimandegesprek), de meerderheid (69% van 14572 jeugdigen) van jonge delinquenten die een waarschuwing hebben gekregen minder snel opnieuw in contact komen met justitie voor hun 17e levensjaar dan jeugdigen …

The body of evidence that the working alliance is associated with positive outcomes for mandated clients is growing. The aim of this research was to investigate the influence of several characteristics of probation officers (POs) and offenders on the course of the working alliance during probation supervision. …

Dual diagnoses in a sample of severely criminal female offenders

Women and girls represent only a minority in the penitentiary system and in forensic mental health care. About 6%–10% of both prison and forensic psychiatric populations in Western countries comprise women (see for the most recent offi cial statistics in the UK w ww.gov. uk/government, in Canada w ww.statcan.gc.ca, …

This dissertation explores whether the German news media framework that is constructed around the issue of trafficking in human beings (THB) is biased or framed in terms of gender. The past decade has seen major developments in efforts towards the eradication of THB on an international and national …

Although girls and women represent only a minority of the forensic mental health and prison populations, studies worldwide suggest that there has been a steady increase in the number of females being convicted for committing offenses, especially violent offenses. In this chapter, an overview will be …

A core element of Schema Therapy (ST) is ‘schema modes’ or fluctuating emotional states. ST assumes that particular personality pathology consists of specific combinations of maladaptive schema modes. There is confirmatory evidence for the modes hypothesized to be central to borderline and narcissistic …