OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceived Entrapment, Goal Adjustment and Goal Ambivalence as Predictors for Suicide Ideation in High-Risk Prisoners	36
‘You Still Need to Care for the patient’. Experiences of Forensic Mental Health Professionals with Inpatient Aggression	24
Predicting Short-Term Parole Outcome in Substance Abusing Offenders with the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form	17
Being Humane in Inhumane Places: A Collection of Papers about Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice	11
A Survey for Examining the Validity and Reliability of the Japanese Version of the Forensic Psychiatric Nursing Competence Scale	10
Behavioral Inhibition and Activation System Factors in Offenders and Non-Offenders	9
A Study on the Effects of Responsive Outpatient Aggression Regulation Therapy for Juveniles	7
Prototypical Validity and Factor Structure of the French Version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) Model	7
Are Mentally Disordered Offenders Admitted to Appropriate Secure Settings according to Security Needs? A Cross Sectional Study in Belgium	6
The Meaningfulness of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism in Forensic Mental Health Rehabilitation Practice: A Systematic Review	6
The Role Played by Theory of Mind and Empathy in the Feigning of Psychopathology	5
Understanding Trauma Symptoms Experienced by Young Men under Youth Justice Supervision in an Australian Jurisdiction	5
Relational Commitment toward a Partner in Prison: An Investment Model Analysis	5
Demystifying Zoophilia: Classification and Psychological Aspects of Humans Having Sexual Relationships with Animals	5
Childhood Trauma and Clinical Outcomes in a Low Secure Male Forensic Population	5
Detecting Coached Feigning of Schizophrenia with the Inventory of Problems – 29 (IOP-29) and Its Memory Module (IOP-M): A Simulation Study on a French Community Sample	5
Exploring Cognitive Functioning among Forensic Mental Health Inpatients	4
An Examination of a Modified START NOW Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Intervention and a Behavioral Level System on Male Inmate Misbehavior, Aggressive Behavior, and Suicide Precaution Status	4
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Full Scale IQ of Male Admissions to a High Secure Psychiatric Hospital Over Six Decades	4
A Description of a Māori, Minimum Secure, Forensic Mental Health Unit: A Step toward Equity	4
Adolescents’ Quality of Life and Mental Health Needs during the Initial Phase in a Closed Institution	4
Granted Leave in Bavarian Forensic-Psychiatric Hospitals	4
Are Hostility, Anger, and Aggression Involved in the Social Anxiety of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients Convicted of a Violent Crime?	4
Estimating the Effects of Secure Services on Reconviction. Part 1 – Predictive Validity of the Offending Groups Reconviction Scale (OGRS-2) and Redundancy of Patient Social and Clinical Features	4
Circumstances Leading to and Characteristics of Belgian Forensic Patients Remitted to Prison	4

Goals and Plans Card Sort Task: A Psychometric Assessment Tool to Measure and Support Life Goal Pursuits in People Who've Offended	4
Intersection between Justice-Involved Youth Personality Profiles and Criminal Risk-Need Patterns	4
The EssenCES Measure of Ward Atmosphere: Mokken Scaling, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, and Investigating Patient-Level Characteristics	4
Time and Care: A Qualitative Exploration of Prisoners’ Perceptions of Trauma-Informed Care in Women’s Prisons	3
The Use of Simulation in Forensic Social Work Education: A Scoping Review	3
Clinical Services Addressing Violent Extremism: The Quebec Model	3
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Suicidality, and Aggression as Indicators of Polypharmacy Practice in Forensic Mental Health Systems	3
Patterns of Mental Health Service Contacts for Young People Deemed Eligible for Court Diversion	3
Cross-Cultural Violence Risk Assessment: Adapting the HCR-20^V3 for Incarcerated Offenders in Mexico	3
The Association Between Work Climate and Group Climate in a Secure Forensic Treatment Setting for Individuals with Mild Intellectual Disability or Borderline Intellectual Functioning	3
Organizing Forensic Mental Health Care Delivery: Putting the Trinitarian Model of Therapeutic Security to the Test	3
Sexual and Violent Recidivism of Empirically-Typed Individuals Convicted of Rape	3
Changes in Body Mass Index During Mandatory Forensic Psychiatric Care: Findings from a Long-Term (2009–2020) Cohort Study Based on Swedish Registry Data	3
Race-informed Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Principles-Based Analysis	2
“Containing the Network”: Referrers’ Experiences of the Community Forensic CAMHS Consultation and Liaison Model	2
Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) Violence Risk Case Formulation and Psychopathic Personality Disorder	2
Risk-Increasing and Risk-Reducing Factors for Violence: A Qualitative Study of Forensic Patients’ Perceptions	2
A Systematic Review of Participant and Facilitator Experiences of Restorative Justice Interventions in the Forensic Secure Estate	2
Community-Based Remediation of Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial: A National Survey	2
Diversity in the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health	2
Substance Use in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Development and Implementation of a Pilot Project for Internees in Belgium	2
Perceived Credibility of Social Media Data as a Collateral Source in Criminal Responsibility Evaluations Using an Experimental Design	2
The Development of a Prison Mental Health Unit in England: Understanding Realist Context(s)	2
Tū Tahanga: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of a Culturally Adapted Violence Prevention Programme in a Forensic Mental Health Service	2
Trauma History in a Medium-Secure Adult Male Forensic Mental Health Setting	2
Understanding Current Staff Experiences, Practices and Needs in Supporting Young People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Queensland Youth Justice System	2
Not Criminally Responsible on Account of a Mental Disorder for a Homicide: Examining Gender Differences to Identify Opportunities for Early Prevention	2
Trauma-Informed Care Practices in a Forensic Setting: Exploring Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions and Experiences	2
Patient Participation in Pro Re Nata Medication in Forensic Psychiatric Care: Interview Study with Patients and Nurses	2
Evaluating an Expedited Process to Assess Fitness to Stand Trial in Canada	2
Violence Prevention Climate in Civil and Forensic Mental Health Settings: Common Goal, Different Views?	2
Restorative Justice Practices in Forensic Mental Health Settings – A Scoping Review	2
Predictors of Weight Gain and Metabolic Indexes among Men Admitted to Forensic Psychiatric Hospital	2
Violence Risk Assessment Tools and Indigenous Peoples: Colonialism as an Underlying Cause of Risk Ratings on the SAVRY	2
Attitudes of Forensic Psychiatric Staff to Self-Harm Behaviors of Their Female Patients	2
Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Onset of Aggression and Criminality in a Forensic Inpatient Sample	2
Assessment of everyday functioning in Swedish forensic mental health services	2
Conceptualizing Professional Stigma Toward Forensic Mental Health Service Users: Results of a Qualitative Inquiry	2
Pacific Islander and Māori Perspectives on Forensic Risk Assessment in Australia	2
Caring for Male Prisoners Who Self-Harm: Perceptions, Attitudes and Experiences of Custodial Prison Staff and Male Prisoners in England	2
The Development of a Forensic Intellectual Disability Model of Care: Synergy to Achieve Equity	2
“If I Didn’t Have Them, I’m Not Sure How I Would Have Coped with Everything Myself”: Empowering and Supporting Parents/Carers of High-Risk Young People Assisted by Community Forensic CAMHS	2
Firesetting among People with Mental Disorders: Differences in Diagnosis, Motives and Behaviour	1
Smoking, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome in Two High Security Settings	1
Staff perspectives of a violence intervention program in a forensic mental health hospital: Identification of environmental enablers and barriers to program implementation	1
Emotionality during and after the Commissions of an Offence: A Look at Offence-Related Shame and Intrusive Memories in Justice-Involved Adult Males	1
Estimating the Effects of Secure Services on Reconviction. Part 2 – Fewer Convictions Than Expected? Six Year Follow Up of an England and Wales Medium Secure Cohort	1
Understanding Women and Seclusion Use in a Forensic Mental Health Setting: A Retrospective Study	1
Exploring Clinician Wellbeing within a Mentalization-Based Treatment Service for Adult Offending Males with Antisocial Personality Disorder in the Community	1
Exploring the Psychosocial and Wellbeing Needs of Staff Accessing Trauma Support in Forensic Mental Health Services in the UK: Relations with Demographic, Occupational and Trauma Event Characteristics	1

A follow-up of the PFS-AV, an assessment instrument for hostility	1
Culturally Sensitive Forensic Mental Healthcare for Racialized People Labeled as Not Criminally Responsible: A Scoping Review	1
Restrictive Practices in Adult Secure Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review	1
Construct Validity and Concordance of Clinician- and Patient-Rated DUNDRUM Programme Completion and Recovery Scales	1
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Forensic Mental Health: An Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Weight Gain is Not Associated with Antipsychotic Medication, Sociodemographic Factors, or Diagnosis in a Welsh Secure Mental Health Unit	1
Trauma-Informed Care Training in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review	1
Physical activity of inpatients under forensic mental health care: A mixed methods study of patient knowledge, preferences, practices and identified barriers	1
The Influence of Early Maladaptive Schemas on the Causal Links between Perceived Injustice, Negative Affect, and Aggression	1
Trauma Informed Organisational Consultancy and Staff Supervision in Forensic Services	1
How Should the Risk of Absconding Be Assessed? Existing Approaches within Forensic Mental Health Systems and Examination of a New Scale	1
“I’m not Just Some Criminal, I’m Actually a Person to Them Now”: The Importance of Child-Staff Therapeutic Relationships in the Children and Young People Secure Estate	1
Exploring Rater Cultural Bias in Forensic Risk Assessment	1
At Risk of What? Understanding Forensic Psychiatric Inpatient Aggression through a Violence Risk Scenario Planning Lens	1
How Do Persons Found NCRMD and Identified as Indigenous Differ from Other Persons Found NCRMD: Profiles, Trajectories, and Outcomes	1
Factors Influencing Patient Participation in Inpatient Forensic Psychiatric Care – A Mixed-Method Systematic Review	1
Inequities in Forensic Mental Health in South Africa and Recommendations for Service Development	1
Characterizing Contemporary Criminal Responsibility Evaluees Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)	1
“Prison Life Can Make You Go Crazy”: Insights Into the Situation for People With a Mental Illness in the Malawi Prison System	1
Intellectual Disability among Violent Repeat Offenders and Its Relation with Psychopathology and Self-Sufficiency	1
Beyond Window Dressing: Does Moving to a New Building Really Shape the Perception of, and Actual Safety on Forensic Inpatient Programs?	1
Impact of Mental Health Court Diversion on Reoffending: A Direct Comparison of Diverted and Undiverted Groups	1
Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients	1