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{"title":"Mental Health of People Experiencing Homelessness and the Role of Hopelessness, Alcohol Use Disorder and Victimisation.","authors":"Joscha Hausam, Friedrich Lösel, Robert J B Lehmann","doi":"10.1002/cbm.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Homelessness is an urgent social issue that is often linked to poor mental health. Despite their vulnerability, people experiencing homelessness remain an understudied group.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study examined the mental health of people experiencing homelessness and its association with victimisation, alcohol use disorder, hopelessness and sociodemographic factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected from 112 people experiencing homelessness in Berlin, Germany (40% women, average age 44, homeless for 4 years). Participants completed a set of validated questionnaires (e.g., Symptom Checklist-Revised for mental health problems).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results indicate significantly elevated levels of mental health problems, hopelessness and alcohol use disorder in the sample, along with high rates of victimisation. Correlational and regression analyses revealed significant associations between mental health and victimisation but not with alcohol use disorder and hopelessness. Associations with sociodemographics suggest that younger people and people with a migration background are particularly affected by mental health problems.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings underscore the urgent need for comprehensive interventions that address social and structural inequalities to improve the mental health of this highly vulnerable population. More research with larger, culturally sensitive samples and longitudinal designs is needed to better understand and address the complex interplay between homelessness and mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144691947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is Schizophrenia a Scapegoat? the Role of Childhood Traumas and Theory of Mind on Crime.","authors":"Cetin Sahabettin, Kapubagli-Cetin Nazlı, Sözeri-Varma Gülfizar, Toker-Ugurlu Tugce","doi":"10.1002/cbm.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Childhood traumas and low theory of mind abilities have been shown to be associated with violence, crime and schizophrenia. Understanding the factors that predispose to violent behaviour by patients with schizophrenia is important for treatment and safety.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate relationships between childhood trauma, theory of mind and violent behaviour in patients with schizophrenia and in a healthy comparison sample. Our hypothesis was that patients with schizophrenia who had been violent would be more likely to have a history of childhood trauma and show impairments in theory of mind impairments than either non-violent patients with schizophrenia or healthy non-violent people.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a cross-sectional design, we recruited 30 patients with schizophrenia who had a history of violent crime, 50 patients with schizophrenia but no history of violence and 50 healthy people without history of violence. Each participant completed the positive and negative syndrome scale, childhood trauma questionnaire, the reading the mind in the eyes test and the hinting task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients were significantly more likely to be male, without employment and on low income than healthy controls with a suggestion of the violent patient group being worst off. Childhood trauma history and theory of mind tests distinguished the schizophrenia groups from healthy controls but not from each other. Logistic regression analysis, comparing the schizophrenia groups only, confirmed that male sex and number of prior hospitalisations were the only two characteristics that independently distinguished the violent from the non-violent groups with schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Childhood trauma histories and theory of mind test results differed only between people with schizophrenia and healthy prosocial adults of similar age, but did not distinguish between the violent and non-violent people with schizophrenia. Whereas a pathway to violence in the context of schizophrenia from early trauma through impaired reading of others' emotions seems plausible, it still lacks evidence. Our findings suggest good reason to assess and treat impairments of emotional perception and processing in people with schizophrenia, but that the need is unlikely to be specific to those who become violent. This needs further research with larger samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144668685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Risk Formulation Help Independent Review Board Decisions on Release of Prisoners? A Qualitative Study With Parole Board Members in England and Wales.","authors":"Mary McMurran, Libby Payne, Alys Harrop, Nicola Bowes","doi":"10.1002/cbm.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Parole Board for England & Wales makes decisions on the release or continued detention of people in prison. Psychological risk assessments (PRAs) assist in decision making and it is crucial that they are of good quality, including coherent and useful case formulations.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The purpose of this study was to examine Parole Board members' views on the accessibility, quality and usefulness of case formulations in PRAs.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Interviews were conducted with 8 psychologist/psychiatrist members and 11 independent/judicial members.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Respondents valued formulations in identifying idiosyncratic risk factors and linking these to risk management strategies. Nevertheless, they identified challenges to their validity, with concerns about facts versus hypotheses. Particular problems were seen in the assessment of those denying their offending and in collaborative case formulation. Integrating information and hypothesising under what conditions a risk factor might be activated was seen as important. Ignoring ethnic and cultural factors was seen as commonplace.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The opinions of Parole Board users of PRAs provide information that could be used to improve the validity and usefulness of risk formulations, including adding to existing practice guidelines. A broader study of users' perceptions of PRAs as a whole, not just formulations, would be useful and research on impacts is desirable.</p>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144643770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prevalence of Narcissistic Vulnerability in Men in English Prisons After Criminal Conviction for Stalking.","authors":"Gemma Dearn, Jennifer Bradbury, Helen Thomas, Rachael Wheatley","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In earlier research with prisoners, we observed that convicted stalkers had skill deficits in interpreting their experiences of stalking and their motivations for it, suggesting narcissistic vulnerability.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>Our primary aim was to explore the prevalence of narcissistic vulnerability in men serving a prison sentence in England and to investigate differences in narcissistic vulnerability and attachment styles between men convicted of stalking offences and men convicted of other offences but serving similar sentences.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were from across 16 closed custodial settings in England. Everyone serving a sentence for a stalking offence was invited to participate together with a same size sample of men serving similar sentences for other offences and without a stalking history. 25%-30% of the eligible men agreed to participate. Each completed three psychometric scales, rating themselves on the Narcissistic Vulnerability Scale (NVS), the Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory (B-PNI) and the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) scale. A series of independent sample t-tests were used to compare the experimental group to the other-conviction control group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-nine individuals sentenced for stalking offences and 25 other prisoners, all men, completed. The stalking group had significantly higher mean scores on narcissistic vulnerability according to both scales and significantly higher mean attachment style difficulties together with higher mean anxiety scores and avoidant scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings add data on aspects of personality to a limited pool that supports understanding of men convicted of stalking. Although our sampling and data collection were both limited by the COVID-19 pandemic conditions, our findings further evidence the case for intervention with respect to ameliorating the personality characteristics of narcissistic vulnerability and attachment styles of such men.</p>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letter to the Editor: Response to 'The Lifelong Impact of Bullying Behaviours on Crime Through David Farrington's Legacy'.","authors":"Ching-Heng Tsai, Lien-Chung Wei","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Personal Dedications to David P. Farrington","authors":"Maria Ttofi,&nbsp;Adrian Grounds,&nbsp;Keri Ka-Yee Wong","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2384","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2384","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;David Farrington's death means a great loss to us personally, to the academic community and to the people he sought to understand. Donald West introduced him and their longitudinal study of Camberwell boys to one of us in the 1960s at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. The study became &lt;i&gt;The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;David's passion for the scientific study of the causes of crime already shone through and was very impressive. He never wavered in his enthusiasm nor in his dedication to that cohort study, despite branching out into more experimental work, including randomised controlled trials of interventions to ameliorate some of the problems so clearly recognised. The Camberwell/Cambridge study is among the most impressive in the world for its completeness at each follow-up stage and that was due to the care with which David forged a bond with the boys as they grew into men so that they felt like true participants in a journey of discovery. They then introduced him to their sons and grandsons such that the study became remarkable also for its intergenerational perspectives. It has produced a large number of papers and books—which should be a politician's guide to reducing the burden of crime but which has proved very difficult to get centre stage in spite of his many efforts to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Through this work, David also linked to other longitudinal studies worldwide. We were always immensely grateful that, as a result, we had David to provide the foundation chapter in our textbook of forensic psychiatry for the main sections on understanding pathways into criminal behaviour. Only through such prospective study can we truly understand whether and how the many forms of experience and of mental disorder that may contribute to criminal behaviours actually do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No dry academic, David was always a good friend and a cheerful role model. Lunches in the delightful village of Granchester were both memorable and educational. He frequently warned against allowing bureaucracy to interfere with research, and he was proud of the fact that he never undertook any administration that might divert him from his research. How we still need his clear thinking on this. Perhaps universities would struggle less with their finances if this call were heard more clearly. Perhaps fewer researchers would find their grants at risk if ethics approval had not become such a tortuous process, extending way beyond independent ethics board consideration if any health component is included.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the 1970s, we started planning a journal that would bring together the scientific aspects of forensic psychiatry, criminology and forensic psychology. With David, one of us (J.G.) approached several publishers. Only Wiley was at all interested but they insisted on production first of two or three yearbooks—to prove that there was a market for such, to them, abstruse activities. This we did in 1995, one on &lt;i&gt;Aggression and Dang","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"127-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143773669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Antisocial Behaviour, Mental Health and Crime Across the Life Span: Honouring David P. Farrington's Lifetime of Contribution to Knowledge (II)","authors":"Maria M. Ttofi,&nbsp;Adrian Grounds,&nbsp;Keri Ka-Yee Wong","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2385","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"73-75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the Link Between Noncontributory Health Insurance and Crime","authors":"Ümit Acar,&nbsp;Abdullah Tirgil","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2386","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2386","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 <section>\u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 <p>New literature has emerged examining the relationship between government-funded healthcare or health insurance for low-income people and crime rates. Studies for developing countries have, however, not yet been conducted in this area. To fill this gap, we studied Türkiye's noncontributory health insurance scheme (Green Card) that provides a full range of health cover to people whose per capita household income is less than one-third of the minimum wage and contemporaneous crime rates.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 <section>\u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 <p>To examine the relationship between government-funded health insurance for low-income people and crime rates in Türkiye.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 <section>\u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 <p>We used monthly criminal records data, according to date, for the crime committed during the 12 years 2010–2021, inclusive, from the Ministry of Justice of Türkiye and Green Card health insurance holder data from the Social Security Institution of Türkiye for the same period. We merged the two databases and used a two-way fixed-effect ordinary least squares analysis to test for any relationship between health insurance and crime.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 <section>\u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 <p>Our results indicate that a 10% increase in the Green Card health insurance rate is associated with significantly lower rates of assault, theft, damage to property and within-household ill-treatment crimes (1.4%, 0.8%, 1.5% and 4%, respectively).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 <section>\u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 <p>Our results indicate that government funding for healthcare for low-income people is associated with lower rates of various types of crime. Although this is consistent with findings in other countries with similar healthcare arrangements, it is the first time such a study has been conducted in a low- to middle-income country. Further study is needed to explore where the greatest health gains were made among those with this type of insurance and how any such improvements relate to lower crime rates.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 3","pages":"147-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cumulative Risk as a Marker of Social Context","authors":"Kyle Treiber,&nbsp;Per-Olof H. Wikström","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2378","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2378","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper takes on ‘<i>Farrington's challenge</i>’ ‘to bridge the gap between risk factor research and more complex explanatory theories’ by offering an explanation for the unexplained statistical phenomenon of cumulative risk. We argue that cumulative risk primarily reflects the social contexts which crime relevant causal processes operate in and draw upon for their content and efficacy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper tests if the immediate causes of crime according to Situational Action Theory (crime propensity and criminogenic exposure) can account for the relationship between cumulative risk (reflecting key features of family, neighbourhood, school and peer contexts) and crime involvement.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper uses data from the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) reflecting the social lives and criminal behaviour of a randomly sampled UK age cohort from ages 12 to 24 (2003–2016). Data used are drawn from parent and participant questionnaires, space–time budgets, community surveys, the UK Census and land use databases.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cumulative risk statistically accounts for 7% and 8% of the variance in crime prevalence and frequency, respectively, whereas crime propensity and criminogenic exposure account for 52% and 58%, respectively. Moreover, and importantly, measures of crime propensity and criminogenic exposure fully account for (statistically mediate) the association between cumulative risk and both crime prevalence and crime frequency.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cumulative risk does not represent cumulative causation. The phenomenon of cumulative risk is best understood as representing the social context. Future research should focus on identifying features of social contexts that provide relevant content to and impact the efficacy of key action (and developmental) processes in crime causation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"106-114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non-Sex Offenders Through Age 70","authors":"Chelsey S. Narvey,&nbsp;Erin A. Orrick,&nbsp;Nhi Le,&nbsp;Nicole Leeper Piquero,&nbsp;Jennifer P. Rogers,&nbsp;Alex R. Piquero","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2379","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2379","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The criminal career paradigm represented a fundamental shift within criminology as it drew attention to the longitudinal patterning of offending, with research findings leading to important new insights on matters related to theory, methods and policy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the longitudinal crime mix among sex and non-sex offenders.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Materials and Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Administrative data of over 43,000 individuals released from incarceration in the State of Texas through age 70 are used to examine crime mixture patterns.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Key findings show that: having a sex offence history significantly decreased the likelihood of arrest by age and that having a first arrest for a sex offence was associated with significantly lower odds of any subsequent arrest and violent non-sex offence arrests.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Discussion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The criminal career patterns of sex offenders are not more specialised, violent, nor frequent compared to non-sex offenders.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Theories and policy associated with sex offenders must take into account their lack of crime type specialisation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"115-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143710456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}