Self-injury and Its Criminal Correlates among Hungarian Juvenile Offenders

Mária Zsóka Bellavics, Noémi Emőke Baráth, J. Haller
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Self-injury is an important problem in incarcerated populations worldwide. This behaviour may be explained by circumstantial factors as incarceration per se may trigger stress responses that result in suicide and other forms of self-harming. On the other hand, certain psychiatric disorders are associated with an increased risk of self-injury and recent findings suggest that psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent in prison and reformatory populations. As a first attempt to study this issue in Hungarian underage criminals, we investigated the prevalence of self-injury and suicidal ideation in reformatory institutions. These were established in 84 incarcerated male juvenile offenders by the MINI KID structured psychiatric inventory. The study lasted 2 years. About one sixth (16.66%) of offenders had a suicidal history. More than half showed self-harming behaviour (N = 47, 55.95%) and 5 subjects reported suicidal ideation at the time of the assessment (5.95%). The suicidal tendency did not reach the level of actual life-threatening condition in any participant. These findings show that self-harming behaviour is rather frequent in the correctional system and requires further research, e.g. studies on the psychiatric antecedents of this behaviour. The findings of such studies may be applicable both in practice and in the education of law enforcement professionals.
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匈牙利少年犯的自伤及其犯罪关联
自残是全世界被监禁人群中的一个重要问题。这种行为可以用环境因素来解释,因为监禁本身可能引发压力反应,导致自杀和其他形式的自我伤害。另一方面,某些精神疾病与自残风险增加有关,最近的研究结果表明,精神疾病在监狱和感化院人群中非常普遍。作为研究匈牙利未成年罪犯这一问题的首次尝试,我们调查了改造机构中自残和自杀意念的流行程度。这些是通过MINI KID结构化精神病量表在84名在押男性少年犯中建立的。这项研究持续了2年。约六分之一(16.66%)的罪犯有自杀史。超过一半的被试有自残行为(N = 47, 55.95%), 5名被试在评估时有自杀意念(5.95%)。任何参与者的自杀倾向都没有达到实际危及生命的程度。这些发现表明,自我伤害行为在惩教系统中相当常见,需要进一步研究,例如对这种行为的精神病学前因的研究。这些研究的结果可能适用于实践和执法专业人员的教育。
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