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标题：‘High Risk’ Adolescents Five Years On: The Subsequent Suicide and Homicide of former ‘Looked-After’ and ‘Exclusion Unit’ Adolescents (11–15)
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作者：Colin Pritchard ; Elizabeth King
期刊名称：International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
印刷版ISSN：0267-3843
电子版ISSN：2164-4527
出版年度：2000
卷号：8
期号：2-3
页码：139-148
DOI：10.1080/02673843.2000.9747848
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：It is acknowledged that adolescents [11-15] who either spend time in ‘Exclusion Units’ and are ‘Looked-After’ by the Local Authority are at high risk for a range of psychosocial pathologies. An analysis of Police records and a Suicide Register of 6-year cohorts of former ‘Looked-After’ ‘Excluded-from-School’ adolescents [n = 814 and 227] revealed some surprising findings in relation to subsequent suicide and homicide as young adults [15–25]. There were no female suicides or murderers in either group [n = 376 and 12 respectively], nor were there any suicides amongst the male ‘Looked-After’ group [n = 438]. The use of an epidemiological approach to analyse the one male murderer, who also belonged to the ‘Exclusion-Unit’ group, yielded an annual homicide rate of 45.7 per 100,000 [pht] p.a. in contrast to the national male [15–24] rate of 1.1 pht.