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Research Priorities in Forensic Mental Health

2002· article· en· W2038675552 on OpenAlexaff
Sheilagh Hodgins

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Forensic Mental Health · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecidivismRehabilitationMental healthPsychiatryPsychologyClinical psychology

Abstract

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This article identifies research priorities for the field of forensic mental health. What is known about the association between mental disorders, retardation, brain damage and offending and violence is briefly reviewed. It is noted that while some of the correlates of offending are common to both non-disordered and disordered offenders, others characterize specific subgroups of mentally disordered offenders. The evidence is consistent in showing that most mentally disordered offenders have multiple problems that have been present, in many cases, since childhood. Knowledge about effective treatments for mentally disordered, mentally retarded, and brain damaged offenders is highlighted. It is concluded that there is a lack of information about the organization, legal powers, and content of treatment, management, and rehabilitation programs that have been shown to impact on recidivism, relapse, and autonomous functioning. Almost nothing is known about the impact of various social services. Future research should be designed to contribute to (1) improving the efficacy of models of service organization; (2) improving the efficacy of treatment, management, and rehabilitation programs; (3) improving the efficacy of the multiple components included in treatment, management, and rehabilitation programs; (4) integrating risk assessment of violent behavior into treatment, management, and rehabilitation programs and improving the accuracy of prediction; (5) identifying the etiologies of offending and violence among persons with mental disorders, mental retardation, and brain damage; and (6) preventing offending and violence among children at risk for mental disorders.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.076
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.088
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score0.400

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0760.088
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0100.006
Science and technology studies0.0090.013
Scholarly communication0.0170.023
Open science0.0040.012
Research integrity0.0200.016
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.106
GPT teacher head0.447
Teacher spread0.341 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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