1. How to train your dragon: an introduction to the special issue on treatment programmes for high-risk offenders Devon L.L. Polaschek
2. The Chromis programme: from conception to evaluation J. Tew and R. Atkinson
3. Delivering effective therapeutic interventions for men with severe personality disorder within a high secure prison Jacqui Saradjian, Naomi Murphy and Des McVey
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 V. Baker, D. Johnson and S. Oluonye
5. The Violence Reduction Programme: a treatment programme for violence-prone forensic clients Stephen C.P. Wong and Audrey Gordon
6. A description and research review of the Clearwater Sex Offender Treatment Programme Mark E. Olver and Stephen C.P. Wong
7. Challenging the ‘urban myth’ of psychopathy untreatability: the High-Risk Personality Programme Nick J. Wilson and Armon Tamatea
8. New Zealand’s special treatment units: the development and implementation of intensive treatment for high-risk male prisoners Devon L.L. Polaschek and T. Glen Kilgour
9. Treating high-risk rapists in a New Zealand intensive prison programme Nick J. Wilson, Glen Kilgour and Devon L.L. Polaschek
Biography
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.
