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Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study
BACKGROUND: Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselecte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32611692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214188 |
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author | Peltonen, Kirsi Ellonen, Noora Pitkänen, Joonas Aaltonen, Mikko Martikainen, Pekka |
author_facet | Peltonen, Kirsi Ellonen, Noora Pitkänen, Joonas Aaltonen, Mikko Martikainen, Pekka |
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description | BACKGROUND: Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselected participants, and a risk-factor-oriented research combining multiple variables affecting violent behaviour. METHODS: We analyse the effect of trauma on violent offending using longitudinal register-linkage population data. The study is based on administrative data on all Finnish children born between 1986 and 2000, linked with their biological and adoptive parents (N=913 675). The data include annually updated demographic and socioeconomic information from Statistics Finland, hospital discharge and specialised outpatient service records as well as the data from all suspected criminal offences known to the police (1996–2017). We measured trauma diagnosis at age 12–14 and followed participants for subsequent violent criminality from age 15 to 17. RESULTS: The population average estimates, taking into account observed substance abuse and other mental health diagnoses, shows that trauma-related disorders (adjustment problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder) were associated with violent offending. The same was true in sibling fixed effect models, which take into account genetic and environmental confounding shared by siblings. DISCUSSION: These results suggest that severe stress related to traumatic or strong negative life changes in adolescence is a risk factor for violent behaviour. |
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spelling | pubmed-75771002020-10-29 Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study Peltonen, Kirsi Ellonen, Noora Pitkänen, Joonas Aaltonen, Mikko Martikainen, Pekka J Epidemiol Community Health Original Research BACKGROUND: Earlier studies, based on data collected among juvenile court clients or prisoners, suggest that there is an association between trauma and adolescent-onset offending. However, there is a lack of large-scale data on juvenile violence and clinical mental health observations with unselected participants, and a risk-factor-oriented research combining multiple variables affecting violent behaviour. METHODS: We analyse the effect of trauma on violent offending using longitudinal register-linkage population data. The study is based on administrative data on all Finnish children born between 1986 and 2000, linked with their biological and adoptive parents (N=913 675). The data include annually updated demographic and socioeconomic information from Statistics Finland, hospital discharge and specialised outpatient service records as well as the data from all suspected criminal offences known to the police (1996–2017). We measured trauma diagnosis at age 12–14 and followed participants for subsequent violent criminality from age 15 to 17. RESULTS: The population average estimates, taking into account observed substance abuse and other mental health diagnoses, shows that trauma-related disorders (adjustment problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder) were associated with violent offending. The same was true in sibling fixed effect models, which take into account genetic and environmental confounding shared by siblings. DISCUSSION: These results suggest that severe stress related to traumatic or strong negative life changes in adolescence is a risk factor for violent behaviour. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7577100/ /pubmed/32611692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214188 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Peltonen, Kirsi Ellonen, Noora Pitkänen, Joonas Aaltonen, Mikko Martikainen, Pekka Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title | Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title_full | Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title_fullStr | Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title_short | Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
title_sort | trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32611692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214188 |
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