TY - JOUR AU - Lindberg, Nina AU - Miettunen, Jouko AU - Heiskala, Anni AU - Kaltiala-Heino, Riittakerttu PY - 2017 DA - 2017/08/08 TI - Mortality of young offenders: a national register-based follow-up study of 15- to 19-year-old Finnish delinquents referred for forensic psychiatric examination between 1980 and 2010 JO - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health SP - 37 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - The mortality rate of young offenders is high. Furthermore, mortality in young offenders is associated with psychiatric and substance use disorders. The primary aim of this national register-based follow-up study was to investigate the mortality rate of Finnish delinquents who underwent a forensic psychiatric examination between 1980 and 2010. As delinquency is not a solid entity, we further aimed to compare the risk of premature death among different subgroups of the delinquents; violent versus non-violent offenders, offenders with alcohol use disorders versus those with no such diagnoses, offenders with schizophrenia spectrum disorders versus conduct- and personality-disordered offenders, under-aged versus young adult offenders, and, finally, boys versus girls. SN - 1753-2000 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-017-0174-3 DO - 10.1186/s13034-017-0174-3 ID - Lindberg2017 ER -