ABSTRACT
One of the most important issues in the area of correctional and forensic psychiatric treatment is the question of its crime prevention effectiveness. The field of violence risk assessment has, however, appropriately started to turn its focus to questions of violence prevention rather than merely violence prediction. J. A. Dvoskin and K. Heilbrun noted that most forensic systems use a risk management approach that entails as an important element ongoing evaluations of dynamic risk factors. The importance and utility of dynamic risk factors to violence prevention and risk management is diminished by a conceptual model that fails to account for the possibility of change in the status of these risk factors. Patients with longer treatment times had lower scores on the HCR-20 Clinical and Risk management subscales, compared to patients who had been admitted to the hospitals for a shorter period of time.
