Cashman Emma L, Thomas Stuart Dm
School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2016 Jul 7;24(1):33-46. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2016.1195476. eCollection 2017.
While the high prevalence of offending and victimisation among young people is well established, no study to date has compared official crime records of young people with mental illness with those without mental illness. This case linkage study sought to determine whether young people with a formal history of mental illness were more likely to have official histories of offending and victimisation than young people who had no recorded histories of mental illness. Results suggested that young people with a history of mental illness are particularly vulnerable to violence. While a weak association was established between violent offending and mental illness, a stronger relationship was found between victimisation and mental illness, especially violent victimisation. Consistent with literature regarding the victim-offender overlap, a history of offending placed young people at a substantially higher risk of victimisation. Implications of these results are discussed in the context of how public mental health services could better protect these vulnerable young people.
虽然年轻人犯罪和成为受害者的高发生率已得到充分证实，但迄今为止，尚无研究将有精神疾病的年轻人的官方犯罪记录与无精神疾病的年轻人的记录进行比较。这项病例对照研究旨在确定有精神疾病正式病史的年轻人是否比没有精神疾病记录病史的年轻人更有可能有犯罪和成为受害者的官方记录。结果表明，有精神疾病史的年轻人特别容易遭受暴力侵害。虽然暴力犯罪与精神疾病之间建立了微弱的关联，但在成为受害者与精神疾病之间发现了更强的关系，尤其是暴力受害情况。与关于受害者与犯罪者重叠的文献一致，犯罪史使年轻人遭受侵害的风险大幅增加。将在公共精神卫生服务如何更好地保护这些弱势年轻人的背景下讨论这些结果的意义。
