Colins Olivier F, Grisso Thomas
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-Leiden University Medical Center, Endegeesterstraatweg 27, AK 2342 Leiden, The Netherlands.
2Center for Criminological and Psychosocial Research, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2019 Jan 12;13:4. doi: 10.1186/s13034-019-0264-5. eCollection 2019.
Detention personnel may assume that mental health problems heighten the likelihood of future violence in detained youth. This study explored whether brief mental health screening tools are of value for alerting staff to a detained youth's potential for future violent offending.
Boys (n = 1259; Mean age = 16.65) completed the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Second Version (MAYSI-2) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) as part of a clinical protocol. Official records were collected to index past and future violent offending.
A few significant positive and negative relationships between MAYSI-2 and SDQ scale scores and future violent offending were revealed, after controlling for age, past violent offending, and follow-up time. These relations were almost entirely dissimilar across the ethnic groups, even to the extent of finding opposite relations for boys in different ethnic groups.
The small number of relations and their small effect sizes suggest little likelihood that screening for mental health problems in boys who are detained in the Netherlands offers any potential for identifying youth at risk for committing future violent crimes. The current findings also suggest that ethnic differences in the relation between mental health problems and future criminality must be considered in future studies.
拘留所工作人员可能认为心理健康问题会增加被拘留青少年未来实施暴力行为的可能性。本研究探讨了简短的心理健康筛查工具对于提醒工作人员注意被拘留青少年未来暴力犯罪可能性是否有价值。
作为临床方案的一部分，男孩（n = 1259；平均年龄 = 16.65岁）完成了《马萨诸塞州青少年筛查工具第二版》（MAYSI - 2）和《长处与困难问卷》（SDQ）。收集官方记录以索引过去和未来的暴力犯罪情况。
在控制了年龄、过去的暴力犯罪情况和随访时间后，MAYSI - 2和SDQ量表得分与未来暴力犯罪之间揭示了一些显著的正相关和负相关关系。这些关系在不同种族群体中几乎完全不同，甚至在不同种族群体的男孩中发现了相反的关系。
关系数量少且效应量小表明，在荷兰被拘留男孩中进行心理健康问题筛查几乎不可能识别出有未来暴力犯罪风险的青少年。目前的研究结果还表明，未来研究必须考虑心理健康问题与未来犯罪之间关系的种族差异。
