ABSTRACT
Examples of critical incidents in secure services vary in nature and can include roof-top protests, barricades and hostage-taking. It is important to understand the potential motivations and functions of such events for perpetrators in order to prevent and manage incidents. This chapter aims to provide a summary of what is known about such incidents in secure forensic services, addressing motivation, function and protective factors and linking this to theory, where possible, concluding by outlining in brief some management considerations.
