@article{ref1,
title="Staff use of mandatory notification as a means of reducing suicide and self-harm in nsw correctional centres",
journal="Psychiatry, psychology and law",
year="2013",
author="Snoyman, Phillip and Aicken, Berindah and Ware, Jayson and Spilsbury, Georgina",
volume="20",
number="2",
pages="255-272",
abstract="Staff working within correctional services have a duty of care to provide safe and humane treatment for people who are incarcerated. Correctional staff are tasked with ensuring that self-harm is minimized for people who are incarcerated. The extent of self-harm behaviour in offenders managed by Corrective Services New South Wales (CSNSW) is explored in terms of staff response to behaviours. Self-harm is conceptualized along a continuum that can be described in four categories ranging from potentially lethal to preventative. Although staff do not overtly use this conceptual model, it is useful to describe self-harm behaviour in relation to CSNSW practice. The relationship between self-harm and violent and &quot;breach of order&quot; offences is explored. Finally, although not formally used by staff, risk of reoffending as measured by the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) is found to be significantly related to staff understanding of self-harm risk. Implications of these findings are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1321-8719",
doi="10.1080/13218719.2012.665223",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2012.665223"
}