RT Article
T1 Violence-Related Death in Young Australians After Contact With the Youth Justice System: A Data Linkage Study
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 38
IS 17/18
SP 9923
OP 9942
A1 Willoughby, Melissa
A2 Young, Jesse T.
A2 Borschmann, Rohan
A2 Spittal, Matthew J.
A2 Keen, Claire
A2 Hail-Jares, Katie 1985-
A2 Patton, George
A2 Sawyer, Susan M.
A2 Kinner, Stuart A.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853829021
AB 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 constructed a cause-specific Cox regression model to identify predictors of violence-related deaths. Of 1,328 deaths in the cohort, 57 (4%) were from violence. The violence-related CMR was 9.5 per 100,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [95% CI] [7.4, 12.4]) and the SMR was 6.8 [5.3, 8.9]. Young Indigenous people had a greater risk of violence-related death than non-Indigenous people (cause-specific hazard ratio [csHR] 2.5; [1.5, 4.4]). Young people who experienced detention had more than twice the risk of violence-related death than those who were charged only (csHR 2.5; [1.2, 5.3]). We found that justice-involved young people have a risk of dying from violence that far exceeds that of the general population. The rate of violence-related death found in this study is lower than that in U.S.-based studies, which most likely reflects lower population level firearm violence in Australia. In Australia, young Indigenous people and those released from detention appear key groups to target for violence prevention efforts.
K1 Youth Justice
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 youth violence
K1 Homicide
DO 10.1177/08862605231169490