Showing papers by "Corine de Ruiter published in 2005"

The HCR‐20 in personality disordered female offenders: a comparison with a matched sample of males

Abstract: This study examines the predictive validity of the HCR-20 in a sample of 42 female patients admitted to a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital. The findings are compared with those for a matched sample of 42 male forensic psychiatric patients. The inter-rater reliability of the HCR-20 was good for both female and male patients. There were significant differences between female and male patients in mean HCR- 20 item scores, but the mean H, C and R-subscale scores and total score were comparable. The base rate for inpatient violence was similar for female (30%) and male patients (29%), but the base rate for violent recidivism after discharge was significantly higher for the male sample (43%) compared with the female sample (13%). For male patients, the HCR-20 demonstrated good to excellent predictive validity for violent outcome (violent recidivism and inpatient violence); however, predictive accuracy for female patients was much lower. In females, only the HCR-20 final risk judgment, and not the HCR-20 total score, demonstrated significant predictive validity for violent outcome. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (from the journal abstract)

Preliminary Evidence for an Automatic Link Between Sex and Power Among Men Who Molest Children

Abstract: Understanding critical motivational processes of sexual offenders may ultimately provide important clues to more effective treatments Implicit, automatic cognitive processes have received minimal attention; however, a lexical decision experiment revealed automatic links between the concepts of power and sex among participants who self-reported attraction to sexual aggression The current study replicates this experiment with a group of male child molesters and forensic and analogue controls Subliminally presented sex words elicited a facilitation effect for power words among child molesters only; that is, sex to power associations were evident, as well as a trend for the reverse These results provide preliminary evidence for an automatic sex-power association in child molesters and may point to a crucial pathological link in the cognitive schemata of sex offenders As well, the current study suggests that paradigms from cognitive psychology may contribute to multimodal (risk) assessment of sexual offen

Introduction to the special issue / Working with aggression and violence: Assessment, prevention and treatment

Abstract: This special edition of Psychology, Crime & Law is the— outcome of the 2nd International Center for Aggression Replacement Training (ICART) Conference, which was held from 22 to 24 September 2004 i...