Substance misuse and violent crime: Swedish population study
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Many studies have reported strong associations between substance misuse and violent crime. 1 But the population impact of people diagnosed with substance use disorders on such crime is not known.Calculating the population impact and the relative importance of different classes of drugs is necessary to estimate the likely public health effect of any developments in services and treatment interventions in preventing violent crime.To investigate the overall impact of substance misuse on violent crime, we estimated the population attributable risk using data from high quality national psychiatric and crime registers in Sweden from 1988 to 2000.
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Substance abuse and dependence is an important risk factor for crime, either alone or comorbid with psychosis.
“as substance abuse and dependence is an important risk factor, either alone [71] or comorbid with psychosis [21]”
From The Prevalence of Mental Disorders among the Homeless in Western Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis (2008) · cites this paper as [71]
The Abstract and Comment report a strong association between substance misuse and violent crime, supporting the risk-factor point attached to [71]. The paper does not establish that this association holds independently of psychosis, and its findings concern violent crime rather than crime generally; the separate claim about comorbidity is attributed to [21]. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe increased prevalence for drug dependence in both sexes may contribute to the reported increased crime rates in the homeless.
“The increased prevalence for drug dependence in both sexes may contribute to the reported increased crime rates in the homeless [20,21,22], as substance abuse and dependence is an important risk factor, either alone [71] or comorbid with psychosis [21].”
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- Authors
- Grann, M., & Fazel, S.
- Affiliations
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Warneford Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Grann, Martin
- ORCID
- Fazel, Seena
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2004-05-20
- Volume
- 328
- Issue
- 7450
- Pages
- 1233-1234
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC416597
- OpenAlex
- W2024855106
- Cited by
- 135
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Keywords
- substance abuse, violent crime, population attributable risk, substance use disorders, drug classes, psychiatric diagnosis, crime prevention, public health impact
- MeSH terms
- Crime, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Registries, Risk Factors, Sweden, Violence, Substance-Related Disorders
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