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© British Association of Social Workers

Dangerous Clients: Further Observations on the Limitation of Mayhem

HERSCHEL PRINS

Herschel Prins, M Phil, has worked in probation, psychiatric social work, further education, central government and in university teaching. He has served on the Parole Board for England and Wales and is currently a member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for the Trent Region and a Mental Health Act Commissioner. He has published widely in the fields of social work, mental health and forensic psychiatry. He is now an adviser in clinical criminology

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The present contribution seeks to complement, up-date and amplify material presented in an earlier paper in this Journal (Prins, 1975) concerned with the management of dangerous and potentially dangerous clients (in this case, offender-patients). An attempt is made to define the clientele considered to be at high risk of committing further acts of serious harm. Some brief observations are made upon the nature of dangerous behaviour and risk. The author then examines in more detail those factors and circumstances that may lead to the repetition of such behaviour and offers some suggestions for its reduction. The paper's orientation is clinical rather than empirical or epidemiological.1, 2


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