Zusammenfassung Vollzugslockerungen stellen im Rahmen der forensisch-psychiatrischen Behandlung ein wichtiges Resozialisierungswerkzeug dar. Bei Entweichungen während Lockerungen handelt es sich angesichts Anzahl gewährten Lockerungsmaßnahmen um seltene Ereignisse. Trotz dessen gilt es, vor jeder Lockerungsgewährung das Risiko von einzuschätzen. Im Vergleich zur Bestimmung allgemeinen Rückfälli...

America’s prisons are becoming increasingly overcrowded, with many authorities seeking to shift the supervision of offenders into the community as a result. In new research, Jordan M. Hyatt & Geoffrey C. Barnes investigate the use of intensive supervision for the most serious offenders. In a study of more than 800 high risk probationers, they find that those who were closely supervised were jus...

Evaluate the innovations of no seclusion and restricted access to Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) by: 1. Assessing the outcomes of (a) PICU transfer versus continued acute inpatient care among patients admitted to general adult wards, and of (b) seclusion versus no seclusion among PICU patients, in terms of: (i) repeated physical violence to others, injury to staff or patients, abscond...

Abstract Background Escape and absconding, especially in forensic settings, can have serious consequences for patients, staff institutions. Several characteristics of affected patients could be identified so far, albeit based on heterogeneous patient populations, a limited number possible factors basal statistical analyses. The aim this study was to determine the most important among large vari...