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Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Hostility, Anger, and Aggression Involved in the Social Anxiety of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients Convicted of a Violent Crime?	40
Granted Leave in Bavarian Forensic-Psychiatric Hospitals	27
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Full Scale IQ of Male Admissions to a High Secure Psychiatric Hospital Over Six Decades	20
‘You Still Need to Care for the patient’. Experiences of Forensic Mental Health Professionals with Inpatient Aggression	11
Being Humane in Inhumane Places: A Collection of Papers about Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice	7
Community-Based Remediation of Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial: A National Survey	6
Clinical Services Addressing Violent Extremism: The Quebec Model	6
A Systematic Review of Participant and Facilitator Experiences of Restorative Justice Interventions in the Forensic Secure Estate	6
Substance Use in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Development and Implementation of a Pilot Project for Internees in Belgium	5
Perceived Credibility of Social Media Data as a Collateral Source in Criminal Responsibility Evaluations Using an Experimental Design	5
Diversity in the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health	5
The Use of Simulation in Forensic Social Work Education: A Scoping Review	5
Trauma History in a Medium-Secure Adult Male Forensic Mental Health Setting	5
The Role Played by Theory of Mind and Empathy in the Feigning of Psychopathology	4
Understanding Women and Seclusion Use in a Forensic Mental Health Setting: A Retrospective Study	4
Knowledge and Opinions of Fitness to Stand Trial Elements in Australia	4
Prisoners’ Experiences of Training and Working as a Peer Mental Health Mentor in an Irish Prison	4
Prevalence of Mental Health Problems in Men and Women in an Australian Prison Sample: Comparing Psychiatric History Taking and Symptom Screening Approaches	4
Physical activity of inpatients under forensic mental health care: A mixed methods study of patient knowledge, preferences, practices and identified barriers	4
“Prison Life Can Make You Go Crazy”: Insights Into the Situation for People With a Mental Illness in the Malawi Prison System	4
Changes in Body Mass Index During Mandatory Forensic Psychiatric Care: Findings from a Long-Term (2009–2020) Cohort Study Based on Swedish Registry Data	4
Introducing the START:AV in Secure Youth Care: Illustration of a Structured Risk Assessment Implementation Process	4
Assessment of everyday functioning in Swedish forensic mental health services	4
Construct Validity and Concordance of Clinician- and Patient-Rated DUNDRUM Programme Completion and Recovery Scales	4
Forensic Mental Health Practitioners’ Use of Structured Risk Assessment Instruments, Views about Bias in Risk Evaluations, and Strategies to Counteract It	4

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Suicidality, and Aggression as Indicators of Polypharmacy Practice in Forensic Mental Health Systems	3
“Containing the Network”: Referrers’ Experiences of the Community Forensic CAMHS Consultation and Liaison Model	3
Faking Bad, Faking Good and the Dark Tetrad: Relationship Between Spontaneous Faking, History of Faking Behaviour, Propensity to Fake and Dark Tetrad	3
Patient Participation in Pro Re Nata Medication in Forensic Psychiatric Care: Interview Study with Patients and Nurses	3
Not Criminally Responsible on Account of a Mental Disorder for a Homicide: Examining Gender Differences to Identify Opportunities for Early Prevention	3
Evaluating an Expedited Process to Assess Fitness to Stand Trial in Canada	3
How Do Persons Found NCRMD and Identified as Indigenous Differ from Other Persons Found NCRMD: Profiles, Trajectories, and Outcomes	3
Caring for Male Prisoners Who Self-Harm: Perceptions, Attitudes and Experiences of Custodial Prison Staff and Male Prisoners in England	3
Trauma-Informed Care Practices in a Forensic Setting: Exploring Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions and Experiences	3
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Forensic Mental Health: An Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Systems and Processes that Enable Progress for Older Forensic Mental Health Patients	3
Trauma Informed Organisational Consultancy and Staff Supervision in Forensic Services	2
Testing Approaches to Mental Health Screening at Prison Entry, Considering Both Concurrent and Predictive Validity in Men and Women	2
The Physical Health and Activity of Patients under Forensic Psychiatric Care: A Scoping Review	2
Staff perspectives of a violence intervention program in a forensic mental health hospital: Identification of environmental enablers and barriers to program implementation	2
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	2
Violence Prevention Climate in Civil and Forensic Mental Health Settings: Common Goal, Different Views?	2
Correction	2
Intensive Use of Forensic Inpatient Services by People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Ontario, Canada: Prevalence and Associated Characteristics	2
Perceived Entrapment, Goal Adjustment and Goal Ambivalence as Predictors for Suicide Ideation in High-Risk Prisoners	2
Physical Health and Activity of Inpatients under Forensic Mental Health Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey and Audit of Patients in a High Secure Setting in Queensland, Australia	2
Person-First, Recovery-Oriented Language and Public Attitudes Towards People in Forensic Mental Health Services	2
‘I was in a Jail within a Jail’: Prisoner's Experiences of Segregation within the Scottish Prison Service	2
Impact of Mental Health Court Diversion on Reoffending: A Direct Comparison of Diverted and Undiverted Groups	2
Current Practices in Incorporating Culture into Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Survey of Practitioners	2
Intellectual Disability among Violent Repeat Offenders and Its Relation with Psychopathology and Self-Sufficiency	2
Patterns of Mental Health Service Contacts for Young People Deemed Eligible for Court Diversion	2
Understanding Trauma Symptoms Experienced by Young Men under Youth Justice Supervision in an Australian Jurisdiction	2
An Exploration of Risk and Protective Characteristics of Violent Youth Offenders in Singapore across Adolescent Developmental Stages	2
Trauma-Informed Care Training in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review	2
Exploring Cognitive Functioning among Forensic Mental Health Inpatients	2
Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Incarcerated Individuals with Depression or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review	2
Roles of Families in the Forensic Mental Health System in Ontario, Canada: An Interpretive Phenomenology	2
Conducting Patient Oriented Research (POR) in a Forensic Psychiatric Facility: A Case Study of Patient Involvement	2
Intersection between Justice-Involved Youth Personality Profiles and Criminal Risk-Need Patterns	2
Characterizing Contemporary Criminal Responsibility Evaluees Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)	2
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	2
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	2
At Risk of What? Understanding Forensic Psychiatric Inpatient Aggression through a Violence Risk Scenario Planning Lens	2
Prototypical Validity and Factor Structure of the French Version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) Model	2