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Completed Suicides Among Quebec Adolescents Involved With Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Services
Author(s) -
Farand Lambert,
Chag François,
Renaud Johanne,
Rivard Michele
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1521/suli.34.1.24.27774
Subject(s) - juvenile , welfare , economic justice , juvenile delinquency , suicide prevention , population , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , psychology , demography , occupational safety and health , psychiatry , medicine , criminology , environmental health , political science , sociology , law , biology , genetics , pathology
In the Province of Quebec (Canada), adolescents involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems committed at least one third of all completed suicides in their age group in 1995 and 1996. Their risk of suicide, standardized for age and sex, was five times that of the general adolescent population, and female juvenile delinquents had the highest relative risk of suicide (36.1). Cumulated risk factors may explain those results. Since 40% of those suicides did occur when subjects were still actively involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, those agencies should revise their suicide prevention strategies.