Staff reviewed
PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND CRIMINOGENIC RISK IN PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS: COMPARING PATIENTS ACROSS FORENSIC AND NONFORENSIC SETTINGS.
— STAFF
It supplies empirical support, within a forensic inpatient sample, for the position that criminogenic risk is not reducible to symptom severity and must be assessed and treated separately — a point an evaluator can now cite when recommending risk-focused rather than purely psychiatric intervention. The counterintuitive finding that NGRI acquittees are the least symptomatic and not the highest-risk group is a useful corrective to an assumption that can creep into conditional-release and placement reasoning, though the cross-sectional design and self-report measures mean it explains association, not causation.