TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Psychosis and criminal offending: a population-based data-linkage study
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Chowdhury, Nabila Z.
A1  - Albalawi, Olayan
A1  - Wand, Handan
A1  - Allnutt, Stephen
A1  - Adily, Armita
A1  - Kariminia, Azar
A1  - Sara, Grant
A1  - Schofield, Peter W.
A1  - O'Driscoll, Colman
A1  - Greenberg, David M.
A1  - Butler, Tony
SP  - 157
EP  - 174
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
N2  - This population-based case-control study examines the association between psychosis and criminal convictions in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, using data from several health and offending administrative data collections. Cases were individuals diagnosed with psychosis between 2001 and 2012 (n = 86,461). For each case, two age- and sex-matched controls with no diagnosis of psychosis were selected. Criminal convictions were identified using the NSW Reoffending Database. Cases were approximately 5 times more likely to offend compared with controls, adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 4.68, 95% confidence interval (CI) = [4.55, 4.81], and accounted for 10% of all criminal convictions in NSW between 2001 and 2015. The prevalence of at least one criminal conviction was 30% among cases compared with 6% among controls. The results from this study confirm previous work regarding the association between psychosis and criminal convictions. More work is needed to better articulate the mechanisms for this association to enable prevention strategies to be developed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854820964834
ID  - ref1
ER  -