Violence Risk Screening in the Prison Setting: Improving Prison Safety and Reducing Violent Recidivism

ICPA2023 Presentation by Marjam Smeekens and Michiel De Vries Robbé (ICPA2023-PID079)

Authors

Marjam Smeekens

Researcher, PhD candidate, The Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP), Netherlands

Marjam Smeekens is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology in Utrecht, and Leiden University. Her PhD trajectory focuses on validating The Risk Screener – Violence (RS-V). A new risk-screening tool developed in The Netherlands in order to make violence risk evaluations feasible for all prisoners.

Michiel de Vries Robbé

Senior Researcher, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands

Dr. Michiel de Vries Robbé is psychologist and senior researcher at the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosocial Care, of the Amsterdam University medical center (VUmc) in The Netherlands. In addition, he is affiliated as senior researcher with the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and as associate professor with the department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research focuses primarily on risk assessment and its applicability and implementation in forensic practice. In particular, he is involved in the development of measures for risk screening and the assessment of protective factors for (violence) risk for adults, juveniles and children. He is 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 (RS-V) and Risk Screener-Youth (RS-Y).

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