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ArticleCriminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH2023

Relationships between parental mental illness and/or offending and offspring contact with the police in childhood: Findings from a longitudinal record-linkage study.

Ulrika Athanassiou, Melissa J Green, Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Kristin R Laurens, Felicity Harris, Vaughan J Carr, Kimberlie Dean

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Article in Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Ulrika AthanassiouDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9214-1665
Melissa J GreenDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Stacy TzoumakisSchool of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Southport, QLD, Australia.
Tyson WhittenDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Kristin R LaurensDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Felicity HarrisDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Vaughan J CarrDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Kimberlie DeanDiscipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The University of Sydney · AUGriffith University · AU

Funding

Australian Government Research Training Program ScholarshipAustralian Research Council - Discovery Early Career Research Award DE210100113Australian Research Council - Discovery Project DP170101403Australian Research Council - Future Fellowship FT170100294Australian Research Council - Linkage Project LP110100150Australian Rotary Health 104090Australian Rotary Health 162302National Health and Medical Research Council - Investigator Grant 1175408National Health and Medical Research Council - Partnership Project 1133833National Health and Medical Research Council - Project Grants 1058652National Health and Medical Research Council - Project Grants 1148055
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundParental offending and mental illness are associated with an increased risk of criminal behaviour in offspring during adolescence and adulthood, but the impact of such problems on younger children, including children's experiences of victimisation, is less well known.

aimTo investigate the associations between parental offending and mental illness recorded prior to their offspring's age of 5 years and their offspring's contact with police as a 'person of interest', 'victim' or 'witness' between ages 5 and 13 years.

methodsOur sample consisted of 72,771 children and their parents drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study, an Australian longitudinal population-based record linkage study. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine associations between parental factors and offspring's police contact. Separate models examined the relationships between maternal or paternal offending and mental illness, as well as the combination among either or both parents, as the independent variables, and their child's police contact as the dependent variable.

resultsParental offending and mental illness were each individually associated with indices of police contact among offspring. Stronger associations were observed when both offending and mental illness were present together (in either parent, or when one parent had both exposures). Stronger associations were evident for mothers with both factors across all offspring police contact types, relative to fathers with both factors, in fully adjusted models; that is, children of mothers with both factors were over four times as likely to have contact with police as a 'person of interest' (OR = 4.29; 95% CI = 3.75-4.92) and over three times as likely to have contact as a victim (OR = 3.35; 95% CI = 3.01-3.74) or witness (OR = 3.58; 95% CI = 3.03-4.24), than children whose mothers had no history of offending or mental illness.

conclusionsChildren with a parental history of offending and mental illness in early life are at an increased likelihood of early police contact as young as 5-13 years of age; it is vital that this is taken as a signal to help them and their affected families according to need.

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Mental DisordersPoliceAdolescentAustraliaChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMothersParentschildren's contact with the policeparental mental illnessparental offendingperson of interestvictimwitness

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PMID36683139
PMCPMC10947495
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