STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine how often adolescent and young adult victims of assaultive injury are offenders in assaults and other crimes. DESIGN: Comparison of 10- to 24-year-old males treated in the accident and emergency department for assault-related injuries to similar-aged males treated in the same department for unintentional injuries. Police records were searched on both groups for warnings or convictions. SETTING: Accident and emergency department of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. RESULTS: Assault patients were significantly more likely to be formally warned or convicted, and they had a higher mean number of warnings or convictions per 100 person-years of exposure, than other injury patients. These differences were most pronounced for the younger patients and for the year following the injury. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that many young male assault patients either have a history of criminal activity or develop criminal behavior subsequent to their assault and may benefit from appropriate intervention aimed at interrupting the cycle of crime and violence.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine how often adolescent and young adult victims of assaultive injury are offenders in assaults and other crimes. DESIGN: Comparison of 10- to 24-year-old males treated in the accident and emergency department for assault-related injuries to similar-aged males treated in the same department for unintentional injuries. Police records were searched on both groups for warnings or convictions. SETTING: Accident and emergency department of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. RESULTS: Assault patients were significantly more likely to be formally warned or convicted, and they had a higher mean number of warnings or convictions per 100 person-years of exposure, than other injurypatients. These differences were most pronounced for the younger patients and for the year following the injury. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that many young male assault patients either have a history of criminal activity or develop criminal behavior subsequent to their assault and may benefit from appropriate intervention aimed at interrupting the cycle of crime and violence.
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