Contemporary approaches to assessing the protective factors of antisocial behavior in mentally ills
The article gives an overview of current approaches to defining the role of protective factors in the prevention of socially dangerous acts committed by the mentally ills. It outlines complex methods of assessment of constraining factors in various population groups developed in foreign and national forensic psychiatric practice. By analyzing those factors one can assess prospects for defining the most informative criteria which reduce the risk of violence and significant for the complex prevention and psychosocial rehabilitation system.