Treatment programmes for high risk offenders

Devon L. L. Polaschek is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include theory, intervention, and intervention evaluation with serious violent and sexual offenders, psychopathy, desistance and parole, and experimental approaches to offender assessment. She works closely in a number of roles with New Zealand’s Department of Corrections, making her research distinctly practice-focused, with a particular emphasis on the effective treatment of high-risk psychopathic violent prisoners.

• 1. How to train your dragon: an introduction to the special issue on treatment programmes for high-risk offenders 2. The Chromis programme: from conception to evaluation 3. Delivering effective therapeutic interventions for men with severe personality disorder within a high secure prison 4. Resettle: a significant new step in an emerging pathway that manages risk and addresses need in high-risk personality disordered offenders on their release into the community 5. The Violence Reduction Programme: a treatment programme for violence-prone forensic clients 6. A description and research review of the Clearwater Sex Offender Treatment Programme 7. Challenging the ‘urban myth’ of psychopathy untreatability: the High-Risk Personality Programme 8. New Zealand’s special treatment units: the development and implementation of intensive treatment for high-risk male prisoners 9. Treating high-risk rapists in a New Zealand intensive prison programme