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Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Forensic Mental Health is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Are Hostility, Anger, and Aggression Involved in the Social Anxiety of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients Convicted of a Violent Crime?	37
Granted Leave in Bavarian Forensic-Psychiatric Hospitals	26
Being Humane in Inhumane Places: A Collection of Papers about Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice	17
‘You Still Need to Care for the patient’. Experiences of Forensic Mental Health Professionals with Inpatient Aggression	11
The Use of Simulation in Forensic Social Work Education: A Scoping Review	7
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Full Scale IQ of Male Admissions to a High Secure Psychiatric Hospital Over Six Decades	7
A Systematic Review of Participant and Facilitator Experiences of Restorative Justice Interventions in the Forensic Secure Estate	6
Community-Based Remediation of Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial: A National Survey	5
Assessment of everyday functioning in Swedish forensic mental health services	5
Clinical Services Addressing Violent Extremism: The Quebec Model	5
Diversity in the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health	5
Understanding Women and Seclusion Use in a Forensic Mental Health Setting: A Retrospective Study	5
Substance Use in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Development and Implementation of a Pilot Project for Internees in Belgium	5
Trauma History in a Medium-Secure Adult Male Forensic Mental Health Setting	4
Construct Validity and Concordance of Clinician- and Patient-Rated DUNDRUM Programme Completion and Recovery Scales	4
Introducing the START:AV in Secure Youth Care: Illustration of a Structured Risk Assessment Implementation Process	4
Not Criminally Responsible on Account of a Mental Disorder for a Homicide: Examining Gender Differences to Identify Opportunities for Early Prevention	4
Knowledge and Opinions of Fitness to Stand Trial Elements in Australia	4
“Prison Life Can Make You Go Crazy”: Insights Into the Situation for People With a Mental Illness in the Malawi Prison System	4
Forensic Mental Health Practitioners’ Use of Structured Risk Assessment Instruments, Views about Bias in Risk Evaluations, and Strategies to Counteract It	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
Perceived Credibility of Social Media Data as a Collateral Source in Criminal Responsibility Evaluations Using an Experimental Design	4
Physical activity of inpatients under forensic mental health care: A mixed methods study of patient knowledge, preferences, practices and identified barriers	4
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Suicidality, and Aggression as Indicators of Polypharmacy Practice in Forensic Mental Health Systems	4

The Role Played by Theory of Mind and Empathy in the Feigning of Psychopathology	4
Caring for Male Prisoners Who Self-Harm: Perceptions, Attitudes and Experiences of Custodial Prison Staff and Male Prisoners in England	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
Changes in Body Mass Index During Mandatory Forensic Psychiatric Care: Findings from a Long-Term (2009–2020) Cohort Study Based on Swedish Registry Data	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
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
‘I was in a Jail within a Jail’: Prisoner's Experiences of Segregation within the Scottish Prison Service	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 Rater Cultural Bias in Forensic Risk Assessment	2
Perceived Entrapment, Goal Adjustment and Goal Ambivalence as Predictors for Suicide Ideation in High-Risk Prisoners	2
Patterns of Mental Health Service Contacts for Young People Deemed Eligible for Court Diversion	2
An Examination of Fitness to Stand Trial, Competence to Make Treatment Decisions, and Psychosis in a Canadian Sample	2
Intensive Use of Forensic Inpatient Services by People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Ontario, Canada: Prevalence and Associated Characteristics	2
Relational Commitment toward a Partner in Prison: An Investment Model Analysis	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
Impact of Mental Health Court Diversion on Reoffending: A Direct Comparison of Diverted and Undiverted Groups	2
Conducting Patient Oriented Research (POR) in a Forensic Psychiatric Facility: A Case Study of Patient Involvement	2
The Physical Health and Activity of Patients under Forensic Psychiatric Care: A Scoping Review	2
Trauma Informed Organisational Consultancy and Staff Supervision in Forensic Services	2
Trauma-Informed Care Training in Forensic Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review	2
Intersection between Justice-Involved Youth Personality Profiles and Criminal Risk-Need Patterns	2
Understanding Trauma Symptoms Experienced by Young Men under Youth Justice Supervision in an Australian Jurisdiction	2
Characterizing Contemporary Criminal Responsibility Evaluees Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)	2
At Risk of What? Understanding Forensic Psychiatric Inpatient Aggression through a Violence Risk Scenario Planning Lens	2
Intellectual Disability among Violent Repeat Offenders and Its Relation with Psychopathology and Self-Sufficiency	2
Testing Approaches to Mental Health Screening at Prison Entry, Considering Both Concurrent and Predictive Validity in Men and Women	2
Current Practices in Incorporating Culture into Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Survey of Practitioners	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
“It’s Us Doing It!” The Power of Participatory Action Research in Prison: A Contradiction in Terms? – Phase 1	2
Violence Prevention Climate in Civil and Forensic Mental Health Settings: Common Goal, Different Views?	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
An Exploration of Risk and Protective Characteristics of Violent Youth Offenders in Singapore across Adolescent Developmental Stages	2
Correction	2
Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Incarcerated Individuals with Depression or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review	2
Smoking, Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome in Two High Security Settings	1
Weinberger Adjustment Inventory Portuguese Version: A Study of Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Invariance	1
The Impact of a Short-Term Mental Health Intervention Delivered in an Australian Prison: A Multi-Cultural Comparison	1
Factors Associated with Repeat Sexual Offending among U.S. Military Veterans Compared to Civilians	1
A Description of a Māori, Minimum Secure, Forensic Mental Health Unit: A Step toward Equity	1
Race-informed Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Principles-Based Analysis	1
Estimating the Effects of Secure Services on Reconviction. Part 1 – Predictive Validity of the Offending Groups Reconviction Scale (OGRS-2) and Redundancy of Patient Social and Clinical Features	1
Time and Care: A Qualitative Exploration of Prisoners’ Perceptions of Trauma-Informed Care in Women’s Prisons	1
Tū Tahanga: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of a Culturally Adapted Violence Prevention Programme in a Forensic Mental Health Service	1
Circumstances Leading to and Characteristics of Belgian Forensic Patients Remitted to Prison	1

A Survey for Examining the Validity and Reliability of the Japanese Version of the Forensic Psychiatric Nursing Competence Scale	1
Unidimensionality of the Strengths and Vulnerabilities Scales in the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START)	1
“I’m not Just Some Criminal, I’m Actually a Person to Them Now”: The Importance of Child-Staff Therapeutic Relationships in the Children and Young People Secure Estate	1
Who is Navigating this Ship? A Qualitative Interview Study of Nursing Staff’s Experiences of Implementing Safewards in a Forensic Mental Health Clinic	1
The Meaningfulness of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism in Forensic Mental Health Rehabilitation Practice: A Systematic Review	1
Predictors of Weight Gain and Metabolic Indexes among Men Admitted to Forensic Psychiatric Hospital	1
Goals and Plans Card Sort Task: A Psychometric Assessment Tool to Measure and Support Life Goal Pursuits in People Who've Offended	1
The Association Between Work Climate and Group Climate in a Secure Forensic Treatment Setting for Individuals with Mild Intellectual Disability or Borderline Intellectual Functioning	1
Exploring Cognitive Functioning among Forensic Mental Health Inpatients	1
Weight Gain is Not Associated with Antipsychotic Medication, Sociodemographic Factors, or Diagnosis in a Welsh Secure Mental Health Unit	1
What Happens after Discharge from a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital?: An Analysis of Causally Complex Patterns of Recovery among People Found Non-criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder	1
A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Program for Promoting Trauma-Informed Responses among Criminal Legal System Professionals	1
Psychological Trauma Predicts Obesity in Welsh Secure Mental Health Inpatients	1
A follow-up of the PFS-AV, an assessment instrument for hostility	1
Prototypical Validity and Factor Structure of the French Version of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP) Model	1
“If I Didn’t Have Them, I’m Not Sure How I Would Have Coped with Everything Myself”: Empowering and Supporting Parents/Carers of High-Risk Young People Assisted by Community Forensic CAMHS	1
Roles of Families in the Forensic Mental Health System in Ontario, Canada: An Interpretive Phenomenology	1
Inequities in Forensic Mental Health in South Africa and Recommendations for Service Development	1