CRS2025-PID050-Dr. Michiel De Vries Robbé

Violence risk screening in prison practice, is it feasible and does it work? Results from a national study in The Netherlands

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Dr Michiel de Vries Robbé

Senior researcher, Amsterdam University Medical Center and Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, The Netherlands

Dr. Michiel de Vries Robbé is a psychologist and senior researcher at the Amsterdam University medical center (AUMC) in The Netherlands. In addition, he is affiliated as senior researcher with the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and the Dutch prison system. Moreover, he is associate professor within the department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research focuses primarily on risk assessment and risk screening, and their applicability, implementation and validation in forensic practice. His interest ranges from adults to youth and children, and from corrections to community care. In particular, he is involved in the development of risk screening methods and the assessment of protective factors for (violence) risk for adults, juveniles and children. He is trainer and co-author of the Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF), SAPROF-Youth Version (SAPROF-YV), SAPROF-Child Version (SAPROF-CV), SAPROF-Sexual Offending (SAPROF-SO), Female Additional Manual (FAM), Risk Screener-Violence for Prison practice (RS-V) and the Risk Screener-Youth (RS-Y).

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