1. Mental Disorders and Charges of Violent Offences
- Author
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Dorte Sestoft, Peter Kramp, Tavs Folmer Andersen, Gorm Gabrielsen, and N. Patrick Gosden
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Denmark ,Population ,Ethnic group ,Poison control ,Violence ,Suicide prevention ,Occupational safety and health ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Interviews as Topic ,Kriminologi ,Injury prevention ,Medicine ,Humans ,education ,Psychiatry ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Mental Disorders ,Prisoners ,Human factors and ergonomics ,Remand (detention) ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Kriminalpolitik ,business ,Law - Abstract
This study describes associations between mental disorders and charges of violence among remanded adolescents.100 15–17 year old boys from East Denmark, consecutively remanded during one year, were interviewed with SCAN, K-SADS and SCID-II to obtain past year ICD-10 diagnoses.There was no statistically significant association between the occurrence of a violent charge and mental disorders in general (OR = 1.02, 95% confidence interval (CI)[0.24; 4.38]). An association was found between violent charge and non-danish ethnicity (OR = 7.58, [1.60; 35.92]).Previously reported association between violence and mental disorder among adults were not replicated in this male adolescent remand population. A developmental hypothesis is proposed.
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- 2006