Ulrika Athanassiou, Melissa J Green, Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Kristin R Laurens, Felicity Harris, Vaughan J Carr, Kimberlie Dean
BACKGROUND: Parental offending and mental illness are associated with an increased risk of criminal behaviour in offspring during adolescence and adulthood, but the impact of such problems on younger children, including children's experiences of victimisation, is less well known. AIM: To investigate the associations between parental offending and mental illness recorded prior to their offspring's age of 5 years and their offspring's contact with police as a 'person of interest', 'victim' or 'witness' between ages 5 and 13 years...
January 22, 2023: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health: CBMH