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21 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh21 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 21: 1-7 (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/cbm.793 Editorial Risk-need assessment: Bridging disciplinary and regional boundaries KIRK HEILBRUN, DAVID DEMATTEO, STEPHANIE BROOKS, KENTO YASUHARA, SANJAY SHAH, NATALIE ANUMBA, CHRISTOPHER KING AND MICHELE PICH, Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA The understanding and prevention of criminal and/or dangerous behaviours, together with the rehabilitation of people who have actually offended, have been the focus for a variety of professional disciplines. Psychiatry, psychology and social work have each established areas of specialisation within mental health services and in the criminal justice arena, with mental health services, in turn, compris- ing general adult and/or child and adolescent work and specialist forensic mental health services. These varying specialty areas have, however, also been charac- terised by a number of differences - disciplinary, regional and conceptual - that have resulted in parallel rather than integrated knowledge acquisition. We offer observations and analysis of 'risk-need assessment' (RNA) as an important bridge across a number of different approaches and disciplines. RNA can provide common ground between mental health services provided to those not involved in the criminal justice system; forensic mental health services, which, in the USA, have traditionally focused largely on legal decision-making at trial; and correctional domains that encompass the assessment, rehabilitation and reentry of sentenced offenders. In so doing, RNA provides a common language that crosses the disciplinary boundaries of psychology, psychiatry, social work and criminal justice professionals. It also offers the potential for a more uniform core of assessments and interventions with criminal defendants and convicted offend- ers that may transcend regional and national differences as well. We begin with a review of the research and scholarship published in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health (CBMH) during the years 2008-2010 on the topic of RNA. This is next integrated with additional research and scholarship pub- lished in North America [in Criminal Justice and Behavior (CJB)J during this same period. Taken together, these reviews underscore the broad international support Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 21: 1-7 (2011) DOI: 10.1002/cbm

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