Abstract Objectives We attempted to apply the Bayesian shared component spatial modeling (SCSM) for identification of hotspots from two (offenders and offenses) instead one or variables developed three risk surfaces (1) common by both offenders offenses; (2) specific offenders, (3) offenses. Methods applied SCSM examine joint distributions juvenile delinquents (offenders) violent crime (offense...

BACKGROUND The mortality rate of young offenders is high. Furthermore, mortality in young offenders is associated with psychiatric and substance use disorders. The primary aim of this national register-based follow-up study was to investigate the mortality rate of Finnish delinquents who underwent a forensic psychiatric examination between 1980 and 2010. As delinquency is not a solid entity, we...

Delinquency has been defined as youthful behavior that violates the law. 1 Juvenile court statistics indicate that 2.9 percent of American youths age 10-17 appear in Juvenile Court each year (excluding traffic offenses). Considering there are about 36 million youngsters in this age range in the United States,2 that means each year over a million youths are in serious trouble and appearing in co...

BACKGROUND Lead exposure shares many risk factors with delinquent behavior, and bone lead levels are related to self-reports of delinquent acts. No data exist as to whether lead exposure is higher in arrested delinquents. The goal of this study is to evaluate the association between lead exposure, as reflected in bone lead levels, and adjudicated delinquency. METHODS This is a case-control st...

fashion by the experimenter’s confederate. A story summary given to the subjects depicted the defeated movie character as either a callous exploiter of other persons or as a more sympathetic individual. Immediately after the film the insulted delinquents shown the exploiter being beaten administered stronger electric shocks to the confederate than a no-movie control group and somewhat more than...

The aim of the present investigation was to study the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a sample of delinquent adolescents of both genders and to compare the prevalence between genders. A total of 116 adolescents (99 males and 17 females) aged 12 to 19 on parole in the State of Rio de Janeiro were interviewed using the screening interview based on the Schedule for Affective Disorders and S...