Offending behaviour, health and wellbeing of military veterans in the criminal justice system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A small but significant proportion of military veterans become involved in the criminal justice system (CJS) after leaving service. Liaison and Diversion (L&D) services aim to identify vulnerable offenders in order to provide them with the health/welfare support they need, and (where possible) divert them away from custody. An administrative database of L&D service-users was utilised to compare the needs of veterans with those of non-veteran L&D service-users.

Method

National data collected from 29 L&D services in 2015-2016 was utilised. Of the 62,397 cases, 1,067 (2%) reported previous service in the Armed Forces, and 48,578 had no previous service history. The associations between veteran status and socio-demographic characteristics, offending behaviour, health-

SUBMITTER: Short R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6226174 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature