Assessement and management of violence risk in Forensic Psychiatry

In an atempt to evaluate the accuracy of risk-assessment and risk-management of violence especially for mentally ill persons, we performed a statistical analisys (crosstabulations, factor analysis) based on a retrospective study of 176 clinical files of adult patients hospitalized during three years at SPMS Sapoca for forensic psychiatric evaluation. Our study revealed that psychotic disorder didn't significantly associate with the violence of the offence even when it is dually diagnosed with personality disorder but it was strongly associated with the lack of judgement. A positive and significant correlation was demonstrated between judgement and the proposed safety measure.