Violence-Related Death in Young Australians After Contact With the Youth Justice System: A Data Linkage Study

M Willoughby; JT Young; R Borschmann; MJ Spittal; C Keen; K Hail-Jares; G Patton; SM Sawyer; SA Kinner

Journal article

Violence-Related Death in Young Australians After Contact With the Youth Justice System: A Data Linkage Study

M Willoughby, JT Young, R Borschmann, MJ Spittal, C Keen, K Hail-Jares, G Patton, SM Sawyer, SA Kinner

Journal of Interpersonal Violence | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2023

DOI: 10.1177/08862605231169490

Abstract

Little is known outside of the United States about the risk of violence-related death among young people who have had contact with the youth justice system (justice-involved young people). We examined violence-related deaths among justice-involved young people in Queensland, Australia. In this study, youth justice records for 48,647 young people (10–18 years at baseline) who were charged, or experienced a community-based order or youth detention in Queensland, Australia (1993–2014) were probabilistically linked with death, coroner, and adult correctional records (1993–2016). We calculated violence-related crude mortality rates (CMRs) and age- and sex-standardized mortality ratios (SMRs). We ..

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Jesse T Young Author

Rohan Borschmann Author

Matthew Spittal Author

Susan Sawyer Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article: This work was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT1151103 and GNT1171981). The funding source had no involvement in the study design, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the paper for publication.