Mental disorders and charges of violent offences. A study of male adolescent remand prisoners.
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.
Gosden
N Patrick
NP
Clinic of Forensic Psychiatry, Ministry of Justice, Blegdamsvej 6B, 2, DK-2200 N, Copenhagen, Denmark. npg@dadlnet.dk
Kramp
Peter
P
Gabrielsen
Gorm
G
Andersen
Tavs Folmer
TF
Sestoft
Dorte
D
D000293:Adolescent; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011329:Prisoners; D014754:Violence