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A descriptive analysis of incidents of absconding and escape from the English high-security hospitals, 1989–94

Pages 344-358 | Published online: 09 Dec 2010

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Stephanie R. Penney, Treena Wilkie & Alexander I. F. Simpson. (2023) How Should the Risk of Absconding Be Assessed? Existing Approaches within Forensic Mental Health Systems and Examination of a New Scale. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health 22:1, pages 80-91.
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Tara Marie Watson & Luanne Choo. (2021) Understanding and reducing unauthorized leaves of absence from forensic mental health settings: a literature review. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 32:2, pages 181-197.
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Krystle Martin, Matthew McGeown, Marjory Whitehouse & Wendy Stanyon. (2018) Who’s going to leave? An examination of absconding events by forensic inpatients in a psychiatric hospital. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 29:5, pages 810-823.
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Russ Scott & Tom Meehan. (2017) Critical Incidents During Leave From an Australian Security Hospital – A 12 Year Audit. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 24:1, pages 47-60.
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Birgit Angela Völlm, Andrew Bickle & Simon Gibbon. (2013) Incidents of hostage-taking in an English high-secure hospital. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 24:1, pages 16-30.
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Gary Goodley & Dominic Pearson. (2023) Risk management in open prisons: A critical analysis and research agenda. Probation Journal 70:4, pages 367-384.
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Inge Jeandarme, Sam Vandenbosch, Jan Boucké, Ingrid Dekkers, Gokhan Goktas & Peter Vanhopplinus. (2023) Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 88, pages 101886.
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Mark Mohan Kaggwa, Anita Acai, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Sheila Harms & Scholastic Ashaba. (2021) Patients’ perspectives on the experience of absconding from a psychiatric hospital: a qualitative study. BMC Psychiatry 21:1.
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Sonja CABARKAPA, Raja Sadhu, Joel King, Nathan Dowling, Raghavakurup Radhakrishnan, Akinsola Akinbiyi, Ravindra Srinivasaraju & Dean Stevenson. (2020) Absconding from Public Mental Health Inpatient Units – Who Does it, and why?. Psychiatric Quarterly 92:1, pages 229-237.
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Sonja Cabarkapa, Raja Sadhu, Joel King, Nathan Dowling, Raghavakurup Radhakrishnan, Akinsola Akinbiyi, Ravindra Srinivasaraju & Dean Stevenson. (2020) Profiling Absconders from Public and Private Inpatient Psychiatric Units: a Comparative Analysis. Psychiatric Quarterly 91:2, pages 299-307.
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Chris Holligan. (2019) The Masculine Sociology of Prison Escapes and Inmate Recapture: Exploring the Discursive Representation of Prison Escapes in Scotland c. 1941 ‐ 1978. Journal of Historical Sociology 32:4, pages 492-508.
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Alexander I F Simpson, Stephanie R Penney, Stephanie Fernane & Treena Wilkie. (2015) The impact of structured decision making on absconding by forensic psychiatric patients: results from an A-B design study. BMC Psychiatry 15:1.
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Gillian Mezey, Catherine Durkin, Liam Dodge & Sarah White. (2015) Never ever? Characteristics, outcomes and motivations of patients who abscond or escape: A 5-year review of escapes and absconds from two medium and low secure forensic units. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 25:5, pages 440-450.
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Azadeh Memarian, Somayeh Rauf Yazdinezhad, Shahrokh Mehrpisheh & Kamran Aghakhani. (2015) Characteristics of absconders from a general health service, Rasoul Akram Hospital in 2013. Polish Annals of Medicine 22:2, pages 82-85.
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Laura E. O'Shea & Geoffrey L. Dickens. (2015) Predictive validity of the START for unauthorised leave and substance abuse in a secure mental health setting: A pseudo-prospective cohort study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 52:5, pages 970-979.
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Jessica Grotto, Adam Gerace, Deb O'Kane, Alan Simpson, Candice Oster & Eimear Muir-Cochrane. (2015) Risk assessment and absconding: perceptions, understandings and responses of mental health nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing 24:5-6, pages 855-865.
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Adam Gerace, Candice Oster, Krista Mosel, Deb O'Kane, David Ash & Eimear Muir-Cochrane. (2015) Five-year review of absconding in three acute psychiatric inpatient wards in Australia. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 24:1, pages 28-37.
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Treena Wilkie, Stephanie R Penney, Stephanie Fernane & Alexander I F Simpson. (2014) Characteristics and motivations of absconders from forensic mental health services: a case-control study. BMC Psychiatry 14:1.
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Russ Scott, Vikram Goel, Darren Neillie, Terry Stedman & Tom Meehan. (2014) Unauthorised absences from leave from an Australian security hospital. Australasian Psychiatry 22:2, pages 170-173.
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John Gunn & Pamela Taylor. 2014. Forensic Psychiatry. Forensic Psychiatry 801 954 .
Dave Hearn, David Ndegwa, Philip Norman, Natalie Hammond & Eddie Chaplin. (2012) Developing the leave/abscond risk assessment (LARA) from the absconding literature: an aide to risk management in secure services. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities 6:6, pages 280-290.
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Krista A. Mosel, Adam Gerace & Eimear Muir‐Cochrane. (2010) Retrospective analysis of absconding behaviour by acute care consumers in one psychiatric hospital campus in Australia. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 19:3, pages 177-185.
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Eimear Muir‐Cochrane & Krista A. Mosel. (2008) Absconding: A review of the literature 1996–2008. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 17:5, pages 370-378.
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Trisha Nichols. (2007) Absconding from secure units: a review and description of an ‘absconding pack’ — implications for wider use. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 2:2, pages 22-27.
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Tim Exworthy & John Gunn. (2018) Taking another tilt at high secure hospitals. British Journal of Psychiatry 182:6, pages 469-471.
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Harvey Gordon. (2018) Suicide in secure psychiatric facilities. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 8:6, pages 408-417.
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G. L. Dickens & J. Campbell. (2001) Absconding of patients from an independent UK psychiatric hospital: a 3-year retrospective analysis of events and characteristics of absconders. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 8:6, pages 543-550.
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