Criminality and suicide: a longitudinal Swedish cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate whether violent and non-violent offending were related to elevated risk of suicide. We also investigated whether the risk was higher among those with repeated offences and how experiences of substance misuse and suicide attempt modified the relationship.

Design

A nationwide prospective cohort study.

Setting

A register study of 48 834 conscripted men in 1969/1970 in Sweden followed up during a 35-year period in official registers.

Participants

A birth cohort of 48 834 men who were mandatory conscripted for military service in 1969/70 at the age of 18-20 years. Possible confounders were retrieved from psychological assessments at conscription and the cohort was linked to mortality and hospitalisation and crime records fr

SUBMITTER: Stenbacka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3918990 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature