Year: 2004
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Many studies have reported strong associations between substance misuse and violent crime. 1 But the population impact of people diagnosed with substance use disorders on such crime is not known.Calculating the population impact and the relative importance of different classes of drugs is necessary to estimate the likely public health effect of any developments in services and treatment interventions in preventing violent crime.To investigate the overall impact of substance misuse on violent crime, we estimated the population attributable risk using data from high quality national psychiatric and crime registers in Sweden from 1988 to 2000.
Source: BMJ
Authors: Martin Grann, Seena Fazel
Institutions: Karolinska Institutet, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2024855106