Dr. Belfrage is Professor of Criminology at Mid Sweden University and visiting Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Dr. Belfrage also has worked as Director of Research at two of Sweden’s biggest forensic psychiatric hospitals (Vadstena and Sundsvall). Over the years, he has assessed numerous violent offenders in both the forensic psychiatric system and the correctional system. He has published extensively in the area of spousal assault and risk, and in addition to joining the authorship group on HCR-20 (Version 3), he is co-author of the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER), sometimes referred to as the Short Version of the SARA, and the lead author of the PATRIARCH,a new tool for assessing risk for honour-based violence.