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Obstetric Complications, Parenting, and Risk of Criminal Behavior

Author(s) -

Sheilagh Hodgins,

Lynn Kratzer,

Thomas F. McNeil

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

archives of general psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3636

pISSN - 0003-990X

DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.58.8.746

Subject(s) - medicine , cohort , confidence interval , pregnancy , cohort study , demography , relative risk , intervention (counseling) , obstetrics , psychiatry , pediatrics , genetics , pathology , sociology , biology

The results of studies that have examined the relationship between prenatal and perinatal complications and adult criminality and violence are contradictory. Supporting evidence for this relationship comes from studies of samples drawn from a single cohort. The present study was designed to examine the associations between prenatal and perinatal complications and criminality, defining more precisely than past investigations subject characteristics and the types of offenses.

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