Adult criminality in previously hospitalized child psychiatric patients: with particular reference to girls and the use of ICD-10 diagnoses
✍ Scribed by Dr Barry Wright; Immanuel McKenzie; Joanna Stace; Ian Berg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-9664
- DOI
- 10.1002/cbm.209
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✦ Synopsis
A total of 171 children admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit before age 13 were examined, between 1967 and 1980, using criminal offences between age 17 and 25 years as the main studied outcome. A retrospective cohort analytic design was employed using current classification systems. The children were followed up to the age of 25. About half of the males and a quarter of the females had received at least one standard list conviction by that time. Linear-logistic modelling was used on boys and girls separately to explore childhood variables which were predictive of adult criminality. The important variables for boys were: large family size, parental criminality and a diagnosis of conduct disorder, and for girls were: having been in care prior to admission, parental criminality and a diagnosis of conduct disorder. The use of ICD-10 diagnoses, the study of females and the investigation of a high-risk population were particular features of this study.