Forensic Services in the Netherlands

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Forensic Services in the Netherlands

• for people with learning disabilities
• Anke C. ten Wolde M.A.
• Hoeve Boschoord

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Lecture

• Definitions figures
• Developments
• Dutch judicial system
• Hoeve Boschoord

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Offenders with learning disability

• Attention only recently
• how large is this group?
• Who belongs?
• Terminology is different
• crime, violation of the law, offending, risky
  behaviour, severe problem behaviour

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Definitions

• Level of functioning terminology
• ID, LD, MR, subaverage int. functioning
• DSM-IV mild mental retardation IQ 50-70
• DSM-IV borderline intellectual f. IQ 71-84
• consequences for policy making
• Dutch policy IQ lt80

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LD in forensic system
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Developments

• integration normalisation movement
• living in community, less institutes
• self-determination and autonomy
• increased chances for offending
• less tolerance in society
• grey area challenging behaviour or delinquency?

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More offending?

• Signals, no research
• Increase in crime in LD parallel with general
  rise in crime in the Netherlands
• difference in type of offence
• more sexual offending
• less severe offending (murder etc.)

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3 types of offending behaviour

• challenging behaviour not prosecuted
• minor offences sentence lt 4 years
• serious offences sentence gt 4 years

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3 responses to maladaptive behaviour
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Hoeve Boschoord

• Treatment centre for people with LD
• buildings highly secured low secured open
  units
• 140 clients, gt 16 years, 9 woman
• non-forensic (SGLVG)
• forensic (TBS en PIJ)
• treated together

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4 phases of treatment

• 1. Becoming accustomed
• 2. Committing oneself
• 3. Achieving
• 4. Rehabilitation/reintegration
• (5. Support in new service)
• permanent risk-assesment

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4 treatment programs

• ( after diagnostics observation )
• sexual disorders program
• agressive disorders program
• addiction disorders program
• autistic disorders program

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Learning disabilities

• opportunities and limitations
• generalization and transfer is difficult
• much practice and repetition is needed
• in dayly life

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the therapeutic environment
client
group leader
context
dayly routine
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Therapeutic milieu
work
education
living
leasure time
integration
therapy
training
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Summary

• small group forensic LD
• 4 prison inmates 15-20 tbs
• living in the community more seduction, less
  tolerance
• services forensic and non-forensic
• treatment rather than punishment
• Hoeve Boschoord treatment centre
• phased treatment and reintegration
• therapeutic environment