ArticleThe Journal of clinical psychiatry2019
Psychiatric Disorders and Crime in the US Population: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions Wave III.
Article in The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05875363 (Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Youth With Criminal Behaviors), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Youth With Criminal Behaviors
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Alcohol use during pregnancy: the impact of social determinants of health on alcohol consumption among pregnant women.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- Understanding psychiatric-legal disagreements in not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder cases: a gradient boosting model perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Comparison of sociodemographic, clinical and forensic characteristics of delusional disorder cases with and without violent crime history: a comparative-descriptive retrospective study from Turkey.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Executive Function as an Underlying Mechanism of Alcohol Use, Aggression, and ADHD.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- The Causes and Consequences of Stigma among Individuals Involved in the Criminal Legal System: A Systematic Review.Stigma and health · 2024Article
- Lifetime risk and correlates of incarceration in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults with non-substance-related mental illness.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Misuse of prescribed psychotropic medication and drug crime offending: A follow-up case-control study of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients.Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH · 2022Article
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- Psychosocial function, legal involvement and violence in mental disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
- Adolescence Predictors for Drug Crime Offending: A Follow-up Study of Former Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients.Community mental health journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveCurrent knowledge regarding the intersection of psychiatric disorders and crime in the United States is limited to psychiatric, forensic, and youth samples. This study presents nationally representative data on the relationship of DSM-5 psychiatric disorders, comorbid substance and mental health disorders, and multimorbidity (number of disorders) with criminal behavior and justice involvement among non-institutionalized US adults.
methodsData were drawn from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions Wave III (NESARC-III; 2012-2013; N = 36,309). Logistic regressions were used to examine the association of specific disorders (eg, mood, anxiety, eating, posttraumatic stress, substance use), comorbid substance use and mental health disorders, and multimorbidity with lifetime criminal behavior, incarceration experience, and past-12-month general, alcohol-related, and drug-related legal problems.
resultsOverall, 28.5% of participants reported a history of criminal behavior, 11.4% reported a history of incarceration, 1.8% reported current general legal problems, 0.8% reported current alcohol-related legal problems, and 2.7% reported current drug-related legal problems. The presence of any disorder was associated with a 4 to 5 times increased risk of crime outcomes. Drug use disorders were associated with the highest risk of lifetime crime (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 6.8; 95% CI, 6.1-7.6) and incarceration (AOR = 4.7; 95% CI, 4.1-5.3) and current legal problems (AOR = 3.3; 95% CI, 2.6-4.2). Multimorbidity and comorbid substance use and mental health disorders were associated with additional risk. Controlling for antisocial personality disorder did not change the findings.
conclusionsCommunity adults with substance use disorders, comorbid substance use and mental health disorders, and increasing multimorbidity are most at risk of crime and justice involvement, highlighting the importance of community-based addiction treatment.
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