Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Recent papers from Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

1. Assessing dynamic violence risk in youth: Updated risk levels and recidivism estimates for the Violence Risk Scale–Youth Version.Psychological Assessment · 2026
2. Effects of institutional betrayal on postpartum PTSD: A longitudinal study.Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · 2026
3. “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble?” The Psychopathy-Substance Abuse Nexus in Justice-Involved Youth and Its Implications for Risk, Need, and ResponsivityCriminal Justice and Behavior · 2026
4. Making a CASE for Revisiting Psychopathy and Intelligence in Youth Justice Populations: Implications for RNR and Links to Community RecidivismYouth Violence and Juvenile Justice · 2026
5. An optimal trauma-informed pathway for PTSD, complex PTSD and other mental health and psychosocial impacts of trauma in prisons: an expert consensus statementPsychology Crime and Law · 2024
6. The Classification of Federally Sentenced Women in Canada: Addition of Gender-Informed Variables to the Custody Rating Scale Contributes Incremental Predictive ValidityCriminal Justice and Behavior · 2023
7. The Impact of Ethnic Discrimination and Institutional Betrayal on Canadian University Students’ Mental HealthJournal of Trauma & Dissociation · 2023
8. Comparison of mental health symptoms before and during the covid-19 pandemic: evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis of 134 cohortsBMJ · 2023
9. A qualitative exploration of the mental health challenges and therapeutic needs of Canadian correctional workersFrontiers in Psychiatry · 2022
10. Correctional nursing: a study protocol to develop an educational intervention to optimize nursing practice in a unique context2022
11. Barriers and facilitators to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) engagement among individuals released from federal incarceration into the community in Ontario, CanadaInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being · 2022
12. Effects of COVID-19 Mental Health Interventions Among Children, Adolescents, and Adults Not Quarantined or Undergoing Treatment Due to COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled TrialsThe Canadian Journal of Psychiatry · 2022
13. Comparing distorted cognitions among university students and individuals convicted of sexual offencesJournal of Sexual Aggression · 2022
14. Rates of opioid agonist treatment prescribing in provincial prisons in Ontario, Canada, 2015–2018: a repeated cross-sectional analysisBMJ Open · 2021
15. Comparison of Mental Health Symptom Changes from pre-COVID-19 to COVID-19 by Sex or Gender: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis2021
16. Disentangling Cognitions About Sexual AggressionSexual Abuse · 2020
17. Correctional Intake Assessment and Case Planning: Application Development and ValidationCriminal Justice and Behavior · 2020
18. Convergent and Predictive Associations of Three Measures of Pedophilic InterestSexual Abuse · 2020
19. Evaluative Attitudes May Explain the Link Between Injunctive Norms and Sexual AggressionJournal of Interpersonal Violence · 2020
20. To Reoffend or Not to Reoffend? An Investigation of Recidivism Among Individuals With Sexual Offense Histories and PsychopathySexual Abuse · 2019