Self-Reported Suicidal Behavior in Juvenile Offenders in Custody: Prevalence and Associated Factors

Morgan, Jenny; Hawton, Keith

doi:10.1027/0227-5910.25.1.8

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“…These results are in keeping with previous research on the role of personality characteristics in suicidal behaviour, both in prison [50], [51], [52], [53] and in the community [6], [18].…”

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Psychosocial Characteristics and Social Networks of Suicidal Prisoners: Towards a Model of Suicidal Behaviour in Detention

Rivlin

Hawton²,

Marzano³

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Prisoners are at increased risk of suicide. Investigation of both individual and environmental risk factors may assist in developing suicide prevention policies for prisoners and other high-risk populations. We conducted a matched case-control interview study with 60 male prisoners who had made near-lethal suicide attempts in prison (cases) and 60 male prisoners who had not (controls). We compared levels of depression, hopelessness, self-esteem, impulsivity, aggression, hostility, childhood abuse, life events (including events occurring in prison), social support, and social networks in univariate and multivariate models. A range of psychosocial factors was associated with near-lethal self-harm in prisoners. Compared with controls, cases reported higher levels of depression, hopelessness, impulsivity, and aggression, and lower levels of self-esteem and social support (all p values <0.001). Adverse life events and criminal history factors were also associated with near-lethal self-harm, especially having a prior prison spell and having been bullied in prison, both of which remained significant in multivariate analyses. The findings support a model of suicidal behaviour in prisoners that incorporates imported vulnerability factors, clinical factors, and prison experiences, and underscores their interaction. Strategies to reduce self-harm and suicide in prisoners should include attention to such factors.

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“…These results are in keeping with previous research on the role of personality characteristics in suicidal behaviour, both in prison [50], [51], [52], [53] and in the community [6], [18].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Psychosocial Characteristics and Social Networks of Suicidal Prisoners: Towards a Model of Suicidal Behaviour in Detention

Rivlin

Hawton²,

Marzano³

et al. 2013

PLoS ONE

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“…This fact may have affected alcohol as a risk factor in older and more recent studies. Morgan and Hawton (2004) find a bimodal distribution for the risk factor alcohol (drinkers and non-drinkers were more frequent under the selfharming inmates).…”

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Risk factors for self‐injurious behaviour in custody: Problems of definition and prediction

Lohner

Konrad

2007

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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This article reviews the international literature of the last two decades on self-injurious behaviour in prisons and jails and introduces the risk factors associated with this behaviour. Studies from a variety of countries investigated different samples (e.g. in jails or prisons; female or male inmates). We only chose those studies using a control group of inmates without self-injurious behaviour. The findings on potential risk factors for self-injurious behaviour are largely contradictory because of the differences in sample selection and dependent variables (deliberate self-harm without suicidal intent vs. suicide attempts). We also discuss some methodological problems in predicting self-injurious behaviour. Defining the subjectThe results of studies on risk factors for self-injurious behaviour can vary greatly depending on the type of self-injurious behaviour being examined (Borrill et al., 2003;Daigle, 2004;Kerkhof & Bernasco, 1990). Thus, the selection and operational definition of the dependent variable(s) are two of the most basic and decisive steps in designing such a study. In this regard, studies have investigated a wide range of phenomena. Ivanoff (1989) called the definitions idiosyncratic. Malone et al. (1995) found inconsistencies in the definition of suicide attempts not only in the cases they examined, but also in the literature. The definitions included behaviours that ranged from suicidal ideation (i.e. no acting-out behaviour in the real sense; Daigle, 2004) to self-harming behaviour with various degrees of lethality and motives, to acts that might be called suicide attempts because the inmates had relatively strong desires to die or had inflicted considerable harm on themselves. In conceptualizing self-injurious behaviour in custody, some authors, on the one hand, use varying terms such as self-harm, suicide attempt, or parasuicide interchangeably

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“…The prevalence of suicidal ideation is higher in forensic (Ilgen, Burnette, Conner, Czyz, Murray, & Chermak, 2010; Morgan & Hawton, 2004) and clinical populations (Beck, Brown, & Steer, 1979; Radomsky, Haas, Mann, & Sweeney, 1999). However, in most high-risk samples, a minority of individuals with suicidal ideation go on to make suicide attempts.…”

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The relationship of outwardly directed aggression to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts across two high-risk samples.

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Orden

Conner

2014

Psychology of Violence

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Objective While research has established some relationships between risk factors and specific suicide-related outcomes, in large part the extent to which suicidal ideation and attempts have different risk profiles is unclear. Using two theories of suicidal behavior to guide our hypotheses, we studied the relationship of outwardly-directed aggression to suicidal ideation and attempts in two high-risk samples. Method Participants in study one were 271 criminal offenders in a pretrial diversion program. Participants in study two were 892 psychiatric inpatients who participated in the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study. Results In both studies, after controlling for relevant covariates, outwardly-directed aggression was associated with suicide attempts, but not ideation. Among psychiatric patients, further analyses revealed that outwardly-directed aggression was associated with planned, but not unplanned, suicide attempts. Conclusions That aggression is related to suicide attempts and not ideation is consistent with hypotheses based on both Joiner's (2005) interpersonal theory of suicidal behavior and theories based on a diathesis toward behavioral dysregulation (e.g., Mann, 2009). That aggression was associated with planned suicide attempts is consistent with Joiner's theory. Competing explanations for the results include a potential role of proactive aggression in suicide attempts, particularly planned attempts.

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Self-Reported Suicidal Behavior in Juvenile Offenders in Custody: Prevalence and Associated Factors

Cited by 38 publications

References 16 publications

Psychosocial Characteristics and Social Networks of Suicidal Prisoners: Towards a Model of Suicidal Behaviour in Detention

Psychosocial Characteristics and Social Networks of Suicidal Prisoners: Towards a Model of Suicidal Behaviour in Detention

Risk factors for self‐injurious behaviour in custody: Problems of definition and prediction

The relationship of outwardly directed aggression to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts across two high-risk samples.

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