Risk of institutional and community violence in mentally-disordered offenders

High scores on the Historical Clinical Risk Management (HCR-20) and the Psychopathy Checklist-Screening Version (PCL:SV) are traditionally associated to risk of violent behaviour in mentally disordered persons. The present work explores the relation between both instruments and violence inside and outside a forensic psychiatric hospital in a sample of mentally-disordered males (n = 29). Results indicate that both instruments are associated with institutional violence, whereas they appear to be independent of community violence. (C) 2015 Colegio Oficial de Psicologos de Madrid. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U.