Jorge Oscar Folino

• Professor at National University of La Plata

En esta investigación se dimensiona comparativamente la violencia en parejas de estudiantes de nivel universitario de la Argentina y de Ecuador y se explora la asociación con los celos y otras covariables teóricamente relevantes mediante análisis multivariado. Con un diseño de corte transversal se encuestaron 714 estudiantes (528 de la Universidad...

Objetivos: El estudio se propuso medir el impacto de un entrenamiento sobre formulación pericial del caso forense en salud mental y extender evidencias relacionadas con la confiabilidad de la TEC-F. Método: Nueve psiquiatras y seis psicólogos de diversos países latinoamericanos participaron de un cuasi-experimento pedagógico. Se midió independient...

Objetivos: Con la meta de contribuir al desarrollo del servicio pericial, se pone a prueba la confiabilidad de la “Guía para Comprender y Valorar la Calidad de la Formulación en Salud Mental Forense – TECF”. Método: Doce profesionales de la salud mental de diversas tradiciones latinoamericanas valoraron la calidad de diez informes periciales intern...

Purpose There is a dearth of empirical data on the contributions of personality, psychopathology, and psychopathy to terrorism and its actors. Because of a fortuitous set of circumstances, we had access to a sample of men convicted of crimes against humanity (CAH) committed during the Pinochet regime, each rated by expert clinicians on the Psychopa...

En esta investigación se dimensiona la violencia en parejas de estudiantes universitarios y se explora su relación con los celos y otros correlatos. Con un diseño de corte transversal se encuestaron 186 estudiantes de Universidad de Cuenca. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron el Conflict in Adolescents Dating Relationships Inventory, la Multidimensi...

DeMatteo et al. (2020b) published a Statement in this journal declaring that the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R) “cannot and should not [emphasis added]” (p. 134) be used in U.S. capital-sentencing cases to assess risk for serious institutional violence. Their stated concerns were the “imperfect interrater reliability” (p. 137), the “variabil...

A group of 13 authors (GA) shared a statement of concern (SoC) warning against the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991, 2003) to assess risk for serious institutional violence in U.S. capital sentencing cases (DeMatteo et al., 2020). Notably, the SoC was not confined to capital sentencing issues, but included institutio...

SARA is the intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessment guide with greater empirical contrasts around Western world. The present study is the first in Latin America to explore its predictive validity through a prospective study. An accidental sample of 125 men charged with IPV was evaluated in a pre-trial instance and followed across 8 months....

Comprehensive reply to DeMatteo et al. 2020 in Psychology, Public Policy & Law provides evidence for the reliability and validity of the PCL-R in the assessment of risk for institutional violence.

Introduction: although psychopathy is a clinical construct of great importance for both the clinical and forensic field, previous Latin American research has been focused mainly on males. Objectives: determine the prevalence of psychopathy and of antisocial personality disorder in imprisoned female population. To explore the distribution scores...

Introduction: Different developmental and environmental vulnerability conditions can influence violent behavior in young people. Objectives: To describe the characteristics of young males who were convicted of murder or attempted murder in the province of Buenos Aires, based on indicators of maturity, impulsivity, and socio-family vulnerability....

Latin America has contributed rigorous studies to violence risk assessment research, but knowledge of these does not seem to have spread in professional practice. This communication presents the results of a study on the inter-rater reliability and criteria validity of the Spanish version of the HCR-20V3 in a sample of 15 men admitted to an Argenti...

Although knowledge on and prevention of juvenile homicide are crucial for social welfare and have been approached through different methodological instruments, this behavior is still quite difficult to be addressed. In this study, we have analyzed several psychological and social factors that could be theoretically related to juvenile homicidal beh...

Assessing risk for violence is a complex task. In Brazil, Violence Risk Assesment (RA) was traditionally carried out in a clinical and unstructured manner. Aiming at improving the RA process, the authors evaluate the reliability and the predictive effectiveness of the Brazilian version of HCR-20 in forensic psychiatric population.

Resumen Introducción: En América Latina se cuenta con evidencias sobre la prevalencia de la psicopatía en población carcelaria y sobre la validez y confiabilidad de instrumento de evaluación específico, pero no se ha explorado si los psicópatas de respectivos países tienen particularidades diferenciales ni se ha integrado una muestra normativa tran...

Objective: To examine the utility of the Self-Report Psychopathy-Short Form (SRP-SF) to assess psychopathic traits in female offenders and to test gender-based item modifications. Method: A South American sample of female offenders (n=210) was assessed with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R); 110 subjects also completed the standard SRP-SF,...

Introducción: La manera en que los profesionales de la salud mental realizan la evaluación del riesgo de violencia y la planificación de intervención tiene impacto en las decisiones judiciales, en el bienestar social y en la responsabilidad profesional. Objetivos: Determinar la confiabilidad de instrumentos de evaluación de psicopatía e instrument...

The purpose of the study is to describe arsonists in their demographic, psychiatric and criminological dimensions and to explore factors associated with the expert opinion of insanity.

Los objetivos del estudio son describir a acusados del delito de incendio en las dimensiones demográfica, psiquiátrica y criminológica y explorar factores asociados a la opinión pericial de inimputabilidad.

Summary: Objective: Mental health professionals are routinely called upon to assess the violence risk presented by their patients, frequently aided by structured instruments. Though surveys of risk assessment and management have been conducted, these efforts have been largely circumscribed to individual countries and have not compared the practice...

Zusammenfassung. Einschatzungen uber das Risiko zukunftiger Gewalttatigkeit sind ein fester Bestandteil der Arbeit von Psychologinnen und Psychologen, wobei bis heute wenig daruber bekannt ist, in welcher Form kriminalprognostische Einschatzungen in der alltaglichen Berufspraxis vorgenommen werden. Durch die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit wird erstma...

Rettenberger, M., Eher, R., Desmarais, S. L., Hurducas, C., Arbach-Lucioni, K., Condemarin, C., Dean, K., (in press). Kriminalprognosen in der Praxis – die Ergebnisse des International Risk Surveys (IRiS) aus Deutschland.[Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice – the Results of the International Risk Survey (IRiS) from Germany]. Diagnostica.

Introduction: Despite the relevance of adolescents' psycholegal capacities to judicial decisions, no assessment tool exists in Latin America to evaluate these competence-related abilities. Objective: To explore aspects of the reliability of the Test de competencia para el desempeño en proceso del fuero de responsabilidad penal juvenil MacArthur:...

Introduction: Forensic mental health systems include relevant university services for the prevention of violence and the protection of human services. Objectives: Describe the service offered by the"Instituto de Criminologia, Criminalística e Intervencion Psicosocial Familiar" of the Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador. Material and methods: A study wit...

h4>Antecedentes. La violencia ha sido declarada un problema de salud pública mundial. En los últimos años, se ha visto un incremento alarmante de la violencia a causa de los adolescentes, reflejado en indicadores como el número de homicidios. Los adolescentes son victimarios y víctimas de muchos de estos actos violentos. Colombia no escapa a este f...

In Latin America, violence risk assessment used to be based in the non-structured clinical approach. An Argentinian cohort study that included violence risk assessment tools changed the tradition. The objective of this study is to inform of the observed predictive efficacy of these tools in the follow-up until March 2012. One hundred and fifty thre...

tIn Latin America, violence risk assessment used to be based in the non-structured clinical approach.An Argentinian cohort study that included violence risk assessment tools changed the tradition. Theobjective of this study is to inform of the observed predictive efficacy of these tools in the follow-up untilMarch 2012. One hundred and fifty three...

To test the four-factor model of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R) empirical construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population by using instruments that supply different types of data. Two hundred and nine male inmates of the Prison of Los Andes, Chile, were evaluated. Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out with the PCL-R...

With a quadrupling of forensic psychiatric patients in Denmark over the past 20 years, focus on violence risk assessment practices across the country has increased. However, information is lacking regarding Danish risk assessment practice across professional disciplines and clinical settings; little is known about how violence risk assessments are...

Introduction: The production of research dealing with the violence risk shows significant international heterogeneity and, particularly, scarce results and a slow dissemination in Latin America. Objectives: To obtain a configurative vision of topics that are relevant to risk assessment and secondary prevention of violence that are the present matte...

Crime consequences are not only a security problem; they are also a community health question. Because shop assistants are particularly exposed to crime victimization, they are at risk from suffering posttraumatic stress disorders. To describe posttraumatic symptomatology of crime victimized shop assistants and to explore the relationship between t...

Mental health professionals are routinely called upon to assess the risk of violence presented by their patients. Prior surveys of risk assessment methods have been largely circumscribed to individual countries and have not compared the practices of different professional disciplines. Therefore, a Web-based survey was developed to examine methods o...

Evaluation of mental health in forensic field is relevant in order to plan interventions and diminish institutional risks. The procedure includes the evaluation of psychopathic traits, which should be assessed by reliable and valid instruments. To evaluate the internal congruence of the Chilean version of the PCL-R, and the convergent validity with...

A pesar que el conocimiento de las características de los penados es un insumo relevante para planificar servicios de salud en el ámbito carcelario, no se contaba en Chile con información representativa. En este estudio de corte transversal se describe población penada chilena en sus dimensiones sociodemográficas, criminológicas y clínicas. Se eval...

Introduction: Given the clinical and social relevance of psychopathy, it is desirable to have self-report instruments for a proper diagnostic approach. Objectives: Assess the internal congruence and convergent validity of the Self Report of Psychopathy Scale III-Short Form. Material and Methods: 208 convicts housed at the "Centro de Cumplimiento Pe...

Introduction: The last decades revealed important scientific advances in the systemization of violence risk assessment; nevertheless, the implementation in practice of these contributions have neither been fast nor uniform in Latin America. Objectives: The article is aimed at describing the instruments for violence risk assessment used in Chile and...

Introduction: The evolution of Pathological Gambling has some important landmarks such as the age of onset, time elapse between onset and the perception of gambling consequences and their severity. These events encourage the exploration of the preventive potential of a helpline service for gamblers, thus the contact with this service might be the...

Auteur en een groot aantal alumni-collega's van de Universiteit van Maastricht, hebben gekeken welke risicotaxatie-instrumenten SPV-en gebruiken om het risico van recidive in te schatten bij clienten uit de forensische psychiatrie. Met behulp van START kan volgens hen het risico voor anderen, het risico op victimisatie, risico op zelfbeschadigend g...

The aim of this article is to describe the Justice System for juveniles in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, from a legal and administrative perspective; and to review recent contributions to the assessment of youth with dissocial behaviors. During the last 15 years, the system has been deeply modified in order to fit the recommendations of...

Objective. To determine sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a group of raped female victims and to assess the causal influence by a survey of the association between exposed and unexposed groups and compare those events. Materials and methods. Prospective matched double cohort study. Sample of raped women selected according to incl...

Background: Assessing the risk of violence is a complex task. In Latin America it is often based on clinical criteria that are not very objective or structured. HCR-20 has been used to increase the accuracy of this exam. Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the predictive validity of the Historical, Clinical and Risk Management Scales (HCR...

Los objetivos del presente artículo son describir el sistema de justicia juvenil en la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina) desde las perspectivas jurídica y ejecutiva, y comunicar avances científicos globales en la evaluación de los jóvenes que cometen actos disociales. En la provincia de Buenos Aires el sistema ha sido profundamente modificado e...

In spite of the relevance on diagnosis, therapeutic strategies and prevention of psychopathy of the accurate assessment of psychopathic traits in youngsters, in Argentina the internationally widespread specific instruments have not been validated. This research is aimed to the assessment of the reliability and aspects of the validity of the Argenti...

Evaluation of juveniles is an integral process that includes a broad bio-psycho-social clinical perspective together with the use of auxiliary instruments. The aim of this review is to report relevant issues for this process found in recent publications. Several evidences lead to broadening the assessment process of children and youngsters to inclu...

The evaluation by a "Psychiatric Board" of workers in certified sickness absence is a complex practice, and its results have significant effects from a work and health standpoint. To evaluate the inter-rater reliability in the psychiatric board and the association between self-reported measurement and the board judgment. information was obtained fr...

Introduction: The consequences of violent and antisocial behaviors among psychiatric hospital inpatients are serious and may affect treatment of the aggressor. Lack of knowledge concerning the incidence of this phenomenon and its characteristics helps perpetuate the current scenario. Objectives: To present an up-to-date literature review on the top...

Background. In Chile as in other Latin American countries the introduction of the Adversarial Model in the Judicial System increased the need for the systematization of the evaluation of psychopathy, thus making necessary the translation, adaptation and revision of the psychometric properties of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised. Objective. To...

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a common form of interpersonal violence in both developed and developing countries, and represents a forensic and public health problem. IPV is related to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This relationship however, has not been investigated in Colombian population. Objective: To det...

Background. The violence risk assessment methodology has evolved in recent times. The predictions made in the judicial system require evidence based determinations and transparency in its procedures Objective. To evaluate the concurrent and predictive validity of the Argentinean version of Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form Revised -LCSF-R-, deno...

Assessing risk for violence is a complex task often based on not objective or structured clinical evaluations. HCR-20 Assessing Risk for Violence has been used in several countries to increase the accuracy of this exam. The purpose of this study was to inform on central aspects of this instrument, as well as the results of the reliability assessmen...

To review research results on the relationship between pathological gambling and criminality, published in 2007 and 2008, in English and in Spanish. An important association between pathological gambling and criminality was confirmed in populations of anonymous gamblers, helpline callers and substance abusers. Helplines provide a timely service to...

OBJECTIVE: Assessing risk for violence is a complex task often based on not objective or structured clinical evaluations. HCR-20 Assessing Risk for Violence has been used in several countries to increase the accuracy of this exam. The purpose of this study was to inform on central aspects of this instrument, as well as the results of the reliabilit...

The violence in its different forms, is a social problem that calls for multidisciplinary approaches in actions aimed at prevention. Among the skills needed to guide preventive policies, the highlights are risk and protective factors for violent behavior. This study aims to contribute, from the psychiatric perspective, in exploring factors influenc...

Taking into account the social relevance of child and juvenile delinquency, the little availability of local scientific evidence concerning the subject and the moment of change in the system, this article is intended to describe the criminal system of responsibility in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Psychiatric and psychological aspects o...

To describe demographic characteristics and other health and gambling related dimensions of a sample of callers to the Helpline Service of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Helpline callers were surveyed during a six month period (November, 2006 to April, 2007). The phone interviews were conducted by health professionals and had both a structure...

The present review focuses on the education needs and related pedagogical aspects of education in forensic psychiatry. Physicians specializing in other fields generally deal with concepts that are thoroughly addressed in forensic psychiatry, such as the ability of patients to consent to treatment, confidentiality, victimization, and risk factors fo...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of sleep disorders and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and the quality of sleep in a group of adult women in Bogotá. Material and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2004 with a sample of young adult women who provided their consent to participate in the study. The following...

To describe the characteristics of a series of identified cases of pathological gamblers in the Province of Buenos Aires. A group under study was composed of 62 cases (45 men and 17 women) of pathological gamblers in Self-help Groups in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentine, who were submitted to questionnaire. It was corroborated that all the subje...

A) To describe filicidal women who are detained in prison in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in terms of their risk of violent recidivism. B) To evaluate institutional violent recidivism and the predictive efficiency of baseline assessment instruments. 47 filicidal women, biological and non biological mothers, were assessed whilst imprison...

South America is a heterogeneous continent, with diverse prison realities. Its prison population is estimated at 600,000 inmates, of whom 10,000 are declared insane. Physical and mental health care supplied to the inmates is precarious and preventive programs in progress are rare. The authors’ comment on the Roman Law tradition and describe the sit...

The second edition of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (Hare 2003) describes facets that allow a more accurate measure of interpersonal, affective, lifestyle and antisocial aspects. The aim of this research is to assess the reliability of the Argentinean version of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised on a penitentiary population, taking in...

Objective: To review the usefulness and examine various reliability and validity aspects of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Version 11 (BIS 11) in penitentiary population. Material and Methods: One hundred and eighty convicts and forensic patients who were candidates for conditional release or discharge were assessed within the Risk Assessment Pilo...

Objective. To determine sleep disorders and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a group of raped female victims and to assess the causal influence by a survey of the association between exposed and unexposed groups and compare those events. Materials and methods. Prospective matched double cohort study. Sample of raped women selected according to incl...

Background: sleep disorders area present in victims of sexual assault, being important to determine its possible frequency, comorbidity and associations. Objective: to determine the prevalence of sleep disorders and explore the sleep quality in a group of female victims of rape in Bogota. Material and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study wa...

El contenido: Los homicidios constituyen un problema de amplio interés social. El texto de "Estudios sobre homicidios" revisa el tópico desde la perspectiva de los expertos en Salud Mental y lo amplia con aportes desde la perspectiva criminológica. Los capítulos reflejan el conocimiento actualizado de múltiples facetas del fenómeno; combinan la teo...

Objetivo: revisar la utilidad y aspectos de la confiabilidad y validez de la Versión 11 de la Escala de Impulsividad de Barratt (BIS 11) en la población comprometida judicialmente. Materiales y método: se evaluaron 180 penados, candidatos a liberación anticipada y sobrese ídos por inimputabilidad, aspirantes a alta consecutivos, en el Programa Pilo...

Both in everyday clinical practice and forensic settings, mental health professionals have to conduct interviews to obtain reliable and valid information in order to make decisions and take measures. However, sometimes, professionals are faced with subjects who may try to find some benefit from the interview by manipulating the data provided and de...

En este artículo se describe humorísticamente la psiquiatría forense como una subespecialidad psiquiátrica que abarca, entre otros, temas como la violencia, la capacidad psíquica para actuar en el proceso judicial, la inimputabilidad por trastornos mentales, el daño psíquico, la responsabilidad profesional en el área de la salud mental, la custodia...

Introduction: Dynamic violent behavior risk factors are highly important because they constitute the main target for preventive intervention. Method: Different dynamic factors as well as violent recidivism were assessed in 25 prisoners on parole from the Province of Buenos Aires Penitentiary System. One of the instruments used in doing this was the...

Forensic psychiatric examinations have gained increasing importance in many areas of the law. When individuals refuse to undergo court-ordered examinations of this kind, experts have to solve the tension between ethical and technical problems and judicial requirements. The purpose of this review is to obtain research information and standards relat...

In the year 2001, the Risk Assessment Pilot Program was implemented in Argentina with the aims of establishing a systematic manner of assessing risk for violent recidivism in conditional release candidates and contributing to the design of intervention programs that help to reduce the criminal recidivism rate. The baseline assessment showed that co...

Dynamic violent behavior risk factors have special significance since they constitute the main target for preventive intervention. Different dynamic factors as well as violent recidivism were assessed with, among other instruments, the environmental risk (Risk Management) section of the Argentinean version of the HCR-20 in 25 parolees from the Prov...

This articleSdescribes Forensic Psychiatry in humorous terms. Forensic Psychiatry is a subspecialty of General PsychiatrySthat comprises,Samong others, the following topics: violence, fitness to stand trial, insanity defense, psychological harm, psychiatric malpractice, child custody, sexual abuse and confidentiality.

que permitan obtener de información veraz y fiable, con el fin de adoptar conductas consecuentes; sin embargo, en muchas ocasiones se en-cuentra a un sujeto entrevistado que puede ganar algo respecto de la conducta que va a seguir, según la información que brinde, y tenderá a manipular la información que entrega o a engañar de manera deliberada. Ha...

Traditionally, mental health professionals are requested to provide their opinion regarding how danger are the mentally ill patients who come into contact with the judicial system. Both the assessment task and conceptualization have evolved through the years. Common practice errors were detected, mainly, the lack of systematization, idiosyncratic a...

This study describes the working of a new system that supervises the execution of the punishment phase in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina; namely, the Court of Penal Execution, as well as the risk assessment program. It also reports the results of the violent recidivism baseline risk assessment carried out in candidates for conditional rele...

Homicide rates in Argentina were really high between 1971 and 1977, probably because of the political conflicts occurring at that time. These rates declined at the end of the 1970's and at the beginning of the 1980's. Then, from the middle 1980's on, there was a progressive increase in both homicide rates and the percentage of accused individuals u...

From January 2000 to July 2002, there had been 29 cases of suicide in prisons and forensic psychiatric hospitals of the Penitentiary Service of the Province of Buenos Aires. In the year 2000, the annual suicide rate in convicts was 14 times higher than that of the general population of the province of Buenos Aires. Ninety-three per cent of the suic...

The author presents an up-to-date description related to psychiatric-forensic contributions to the knowledge of murderers. Intrafamilial multiple homicides, sexual homicides and their classification according to motivation, are also described in the article.

Perpetrators of sexual homicide act in response to various motivations, and their victims are diverse. They are not necessarily affected by psychosis. They take advantage of their victims’ vulnerability or of favourable circumstances in order to take control of the situation. The characteristics of 16 persons accused of sexual homicide in the Judic...