Adult criminality in previously hospitalized child psychiatric patients: with particular reference to girls and the use of ICD‐10 diagnoses

Abstract

A total of 171 children admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit before age 13 were examined, between 1967 and 1980, using

Precursors and correlates of criminal behaviour in women

“…Women who had experienced family disruption in childhood, and spent periods in institutional care, were at markedly increased risk of involvement in crime. Wright et al (1998) also identified reception into public care as a key risk factor for offending among girls in a clinically referred sample, as did a Home Office report on imprisoned women, where 35% had been in care (Caddle and Crisp, 1997). Reception into care and institutional rearing undoubtedly index a range of more specific risk pathways.…”