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Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review (2025)
Journal Article
Chou, S., Sawyers, L., Cianci, G., Tyrrell, E., & Kendrick, D. (2025). Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review. British Journal of General Practice, https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0535

Abstract
Background General practice is the gatekeeper to secondary care in many countries. This unique role may expose general practice staff to violence and abuse by patients and the public, yet violence and abuse in secondary care receives more a... Read More about Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review.

External workplace violence towards police officers: A scoping review (2025)
Journal Article
Pritz, T., & Chou, S. (2025). External workplace violence towards police officers: A scoping review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 81, Article 102036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2025.102036

Existing research on public violence against the police is limited. This scoping review aimed to offer an overview of the characteristics and the findings of existing primary research, identifying methodological and knowledge gaps to inform future re... Read More about External workplace violence towards police officers: A scoping review.

231 Violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice: a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Chou, S., Sawyers, L., Tyrrell, E., Leighton, P., & Kendrick, D. (2024). 231 Violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice: a scoping review. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2024-SAFETY.118

Background Violence and abuse in healthcare settings is a growing concern. Staff are more likely to experience violence initiated by patients and the public than by their own colleagues. General practice may be more exposed to such behaviours than ho... Read More about 231 Violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice: a scoping review.

233 The occurrence of violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice since COVID-19 in England (2024)
Journal Article
Chou, S., Tyrrell, E., Leighton, P., & Kendrick, D. (2024). 233 The occurrence of violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice since COVID-19 in England. Injury Prevention, 30(Suppl 1), https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2024-SAFETY.120

Background In 2021, 37% of UK doctors reported experiencing direct verbal abuse from patients and/or the public in the last month. Of these 37%, 51% were general practitioners (GPs) and 30% were hospital doctors. Two-thirds of GPs said their experien... Read More about 233 The occurrence of violence and abuse towards staff by patients and the public in general practice since COVID-19 in England.

Child and Adolescent Offending (2021)
Book Chapter
Paddock, E., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (2021). Child and Adolescent Offending. In J. M. Brown, & M. A. H. Horvath (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology (35-53). (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108848916.005

Developmental approaches to child and adolescent offending emphasise the role of individual and psychological factors when explaining the onset of offending, as well as the role of early risk and protective factors on future offending. This chapter w... Read More about Child and Adolescent Offending.

Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers (2019)
Journal Article
Bullock, L., Stanyon, M., Glaser, D., & Chou, S. (2019). Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers. Child Abuse Review, 28(3), 209-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2558

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This study aimed to explore primary school teachers' and family support workers' experiences of working with families and children with suspected or confirmed child neglect. Two in-depth, semi-structured focus groups... Read More about Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers.

Repeat missing child reports in Wales (2018)
Journal Article
Hutchings, E., Browne, K. D., Chou, S., & Wade, K. (2019). Repeat missing child reports in Wales. Child Abuse and Neglect, 88, 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.004

Background: There were approximately 306,000 reports of missing persons in the UK from 2012 to 2013, 64% involved children. Repeat missing incidents account for approximately 38% of reported missing incidences. Within their research Biehal et al. (20... Read More about Repeat missing child reports in Wales.

A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2) (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, R. T., Browne, K., & Chou, S. (2017). A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2). Aggression and Violent Behavior, 37, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2017.08.005

The purpose of this review is to critically evaluate the Conflict Tactics Scales-2, a measure used worldwide for research and clinical practices. The reliability, validity and normative samples of the CTS-2 are considered and compared with similar ps... Read More about A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2).

The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Green, K., Browne, K., & Chou, S. (2019). The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 20(3), 358-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838017708786

Background: There is a growing body of literature identifying a relationship between experiences of child abuse and symptoms of psychosis in adults. However, the impact of this relationship on risk of violence has not been systematically explored.
A... Read More about The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Community Approaches to the Assessment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment (2017)
Book Chapter
Browne, K., Chou, S., & Jackson, V. (2017). Community Approaches to the Assessment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment. In K. D. Browne, A. R. Beech, L. A. Craig, & S. Chou (Eds.), Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook (235-264). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118314531.ch12

Women are more at risk from men who are generally violent or men with personality disorders than men who are only violent in the home. In incidents perpetrated by both generally violent men or men with personality disorders, the violence is more like... Read More about Community Approaches to the Assessment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment.

Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook (2017)
Book
Browne, K. D., Beech, A. R., Craig, L. A., & Chou, S. (Eds.). (2017). Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell

Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook provides practical guidance in the assessment of the most frequently encountered offender subgroups found within the criminal justice system. Topics include:
- criminal justice assessments
- offenders wi... Read More about Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook.

A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness (2016)
Journal Article
Gibbs, R., Davies, G., & Chou, S. (in press). A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness. Crime Psychology Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/23744006.2016.1228799

Background: The phenomenon of Change Blindness (CB) has been invoked in a number of fields of psychology, particularly eyewitness misidentification, but also hazard perception in driving behaviour. An extensive review of the existing literature sugge... Read More about A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness.

A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility (2016)
Journal Article
Hooper, V.-R., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (in press). A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1201844

Some factors, such as age, learning disability and mental health difficulties, have been identified as making police suspects more vulnerable to suggestibility and false confessions during interview. However, there has been no systematic review on th... Read More about A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences (2016)
Journal Article
Bamford, J., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (2016). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2016.04.001

This systematic review examined the demographic and offence variables in group sexual offending. Eight bibliographic databases and three thesis portals were searched. The reference lists of five papers and one textbook were hand searched. Nine expert... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences.

A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of CBT informed anger management (2015)
Journal Article
Sammut Henwood, K., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (2015). A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of CBT informed anger management. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25(B), 280-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.09.011

This meta-analysis sought to investigate the effectiveness of CBT based anger management interventions on reducing recidivism amongst adult male offenders. Studies were selected after a bibliographic database search, a hand-search of references from... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effectiveness of CBT informed anger management.

A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health (2015)
Journal Article
Willis, S., Chou, S., & Hunt, N. (2015). A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25A, 173-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.08.001

Accounts of political imprisonment indicate that political prisoners are likely to be exposed to a range of traumatic events, including maltreatment, psychological, and physical torture. The objective of this review is to evaluate the effects of poli... Read More about A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health.

The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania (2015)
Journal Article
Chou, S., & Browne, K. (2016). The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania. Child Abuse Review, 25(6), 444-453. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2395

International adoption is seen by some as a solution to the large number of children in institutional care. However, our previous findings did not support the notion that international adoption contributes to the deinstitutionalisation of children (B... Read More about The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania.

A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale (2014)
Journal Article
Walton, J., Duff, S., & Chou, S. (2017). A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale. Child Abuse Review, 26(2), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2361

This article reviews the Sex with Children (SWCH) scale and compares its psychometric properties to alternative measures in the field. Examination of the scale indicates that it is one of several instruments which do not proportionally tap into all i... Read More about A Brief Discussion About Measuring Child Molester Cognition With the Sex With Children Scale.