Appropriate treatment targets or products of a demanding environment? The relationship between aggression in a forensic psychiatric hospital with aggressive behaviour preceding admission and violent recidivism

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 431-441

  Daffern, Michael ^a,b,c,d   Ferguson, Murray ^a,d   Ogloff, James ^a,d   Thomson, Lindsay ^e   Howells, Kevin ^b,c  

^a VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b RAMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Functional analysis; Offence parallel; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548533046     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160601060861     Document Type: Article

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