Psychiatric illness and the risk of reoffending: recurrent event analysis for an Australian birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychiatric illness is a well-established risk factor for criminal justice system involvement, but less is known about the relationships between specific psychiatric illnesses and reoffending. Research typically examines reoffending as a single discrete event. We examined the relationship between different psychiatric disorders and types of reoffending while accounting for multiple reoffending events over time.

Methods

Data were drawn from a population cohort of 83,039 individuals born in Queensland, Australia, in 1983 and 1984 and followed to age 29-31 years. Psychiatric diagnoses were drawn from inpatient health records and offending information was drawn from court records. Descriptive and recurrent event survival analyses were conducted to examine the associat

SUBMITTER: Ogilvie JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10207651 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature