Impending prosecutions for sexual offences was associated with a four-fold increased risk.
The repeated non-violent and violent offences were associated with elevated HRs of suicide in the crude analyses (HR=3.24 and HR=5.40).
However, only a previous conviction for a violent offence was associated with incremental predictive validity in both genders following adjustment for young age and comorbid substance use disorder.
After controlling for record of other offences than theft and prison, recorded drug offences remained significantly associated with self-reported drugs offences (OR = 5.17, Z = 3.33, p < 0.01), records of theft and violence was unrelated to self-reported drugs offences, but record of prison was related to self-reported drugs offences (OR = 4.24, z = 2.65, p < 0.05).
As less serious offences may be associated with lower levels of psychiatric symptoms [ 16], incarcerated ethnic minority youths entering the juvenile justice system may reveal fewer psychiatric symptoms than incarcerated ethnic majority youths [ 30].
For men, distress, antisocial symptoms, cocaine use, antianxiety medication use, antidepressant medication use, and criminal offence arrest were associated with positive ADHD screen.
For men with a history of criminal offending prior to diagnosis, a previous conviction for a violent offence was also associated with the largest increase in the c-index (results not presented).
*based on group information from the Child Welfare Agency The aim of this study was to investigate which individual, family, acculturation and offence characteristics were associated with offending and re-offending in a high risk sample of Dutch-Moroccan boys residing in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Having repeatedly committed criminal offences in adolescence was associated with becoming a young father independently of psychosocial factors in childhood.
