Strengths-Based Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment and Offender Rehabilitation

Corine de Ruiter has been professor of Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University since 2006. Previously, she was endowed professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (1999-2005) and head of the Department of Research at a forensic psychiatric hospital in Utrecht (1995-2002). She is a licensed clinical psychologist and regularly serves as an expert to the court. Her research focuses on the link between mental disorders and violence, including psychopathy and its treatment. She also has a strong interest in the prevention of child abuse and antisocial behavior in children, which led to the development of a risk assessment instrument for child abuse (CARE^V2), and to research on child forensic interviewing and parent management training. She has been Associate Editor of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health (2009-2014), founding Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Psychology/Forensic and Legal Psychology (2017-2022), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment (2018-2023). She is co-author of the Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF).

References

Burghart, M., de Ruiter, C., Hynes, S. E., Krishnan, N., Levtova, Y., & Uyar, A. (2023). The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk (SAPROF): A meta-analysis of its predictive and incremental validity. Psychological Assessment, 35(1), 56–67 https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001184

de Ruiter, C., & de Vogel, V. (2024). Modifying risk factors, building strengths. In G. M. Davies, A. R. Beech, & M. F. Colloff (Eds.), Forensic psychology: Crime, justice, law, interventions, 4th edition (pp. 691-712). Wiley-Blackwell.

Serie, C.M. B., Van Damme, L., Pleysier, S., de Ruiter, C., & Put, J. (2021). The relationship between primary human needs of the Good Lives Model (GLM) and subjective well-being in adolescents: A multi-level meta-analysis. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 61, 101651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2021.101651

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