Talaslahti , T , Ginters , M , Kautiainen , H , Vataja , R , Elonheimo , H , Erkinjuntti , T , Suvisaari , J , Lindberg , N & Koponen , H 2021 , ' Criminal Behavior in the Four Years Preceding Diagnosis of Neurocognitive Disorder : A Nationwide Register Study in Finland ' , American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry , vol. 29 , no. 7 , pp. 657-665 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.11.011
Title: | Criminal Behavior in the Four Years Preceding Diagnosis of Neurocognitive Disorder : A Nationwide Register Study in Finland |
Author: | Talaslahti, Tiina; Ginters, Milena; Kautiainen, Hannu; Vataja, Risto; Elonheimo, Henrik; Erkinjuntti, Timo; Suvisaari, Jaana; Lindberg, Nina; Koponen, Hannu |
Contributor organization: | HUS Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry HUS Neurocenter Neurologian yksikkö Clinicum |
Date: | 2021-07 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 9 |
Belongs to series: | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry |
ISSN: | 1064-7481 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.11.011 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/345955 |
Abstract: | Objective: To explore the criminality of patients with subsequent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or Lewy body dementias (LBD) in the four years preceding diagnosis. Design: Nationwide register study. Setting: Data on Finnish patients were collected from the discharge register and data on criminal offending from the police register. Research findings were compared with the same-aged general population. Participants: A total of 92,191 patients who had received a diagnosis of AD (N = 80,540), FTD (N = 1,060), and LBD (N = 10,591) between 1998 and 2015. Measurements: Incidences and types of crimes, the standardized criminality ratio (number of actual crimes per number of expected crimes), and the numbers of observed cases and person-years at risk counted in five-year age groups and separately for both genders and yearly. Results: At least one crime was committed by 1.6% of AD women and 12.8% of AD men, with corresponding figures of 5.3% and 23.5% in FTD, and 3.0% and 11.8% in LBD. The first crime was committed on average 2.7 (standard deviation 1.1) years before the diagnosis. The standardized criminality ratio was 1.85 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.43 -2.37) in FTD women and 1.75 (95% CI 1.54-1.98) in FTD men, and in AD 1.11 (95% CI 1.04-1.17) and 1.23 (95% CI 1.20-1.27), respectively. Traffic offences and crimes against property constituted 94% of all offences. Conclusion: Criminal acts may occur several years prior to the diagnosis of dementia. If novel criminality occurs later in life, it may be associated with neurocognitive disorder. |
Subject: |
Neurocognitive disorder
dementia behavioral symptoms crime offence criminal FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA HELP-SEEKING PSYCHOSIS GENDER 3124 Neurology and psychiatry |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | cc_by_nc_nd |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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