Journal article
Adult Criminality among Formerly Hospitalized Child Psychiatric Patients
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol.32(3), pp.568-576
1993
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199305000-00012
PMID: 8496121
Abstract
Among 170 preadolescent children (138 males, 32 females) admitted to the University of Iowa Psychiatric Hospital between 1970 and 1983, 23 males (17%), had adult prison records at follow-up in 1990. Assaultive behavior in childhood predicted adult imprisonment (odds ratio = 4.96, 95% confidence interval 1.8 − 13.8,
p = 0.002), as did criminality in a biological parent (odds ratio = 4.0, 95% confidence interval 1.3 − 12.4, p = 0.015). Diagnosis, including conduct disorder, was
not correlated with outcome. Among these young children, male gender, violence, and parental criminality identified persons at high risk for adult imprisonment. Psychiatric hospitalization in childhood is a risk factor for adult disturbance, including sociopathy.
J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1993, 32, 3:568–576.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Adult Criminality among Formerly Hospitalized Child Psychiatric Patients
- Creators
- MICHAEL S LUNDYBRUCE M PFOHLSAMUEL KUPERMAN
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol.32(3), pp.568-576
- DOI
- 10.1097/00004583-199305000-00012
- PMID
- 8496121
- NLM abbreviation
- J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 0890-8567
- eISSN
- 1527-5418
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Grant note
- 5–T32–MH15168–12, 13 / National Institutes of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1993
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984003402602771
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