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Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Criminal Behaviour

A Case Control Study

Svend Erik Mouridsen

Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, sem01{at}bbh.hosp.dk

Bente Rich

Odense University Hospital, Denmark

Torben Isager

Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark

Niels Jørgen Nedergaard

Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark

The prevalence and pattern of criminal behaviour in a population of 313 former child psychiatric in-patients with pervasive developmental disorders were studied. The patients were divided into three subgroups and compared with 933 matched controls from the general population. Age at follow-up was between 25 years and 59 years. An account of convictions in the nationwide Danish Register of Criminality was used as a measure of criminal behaviour. Among 113 cases with childhood autism, .9% had been convicted. In atypical autism (n = 86) and Asperger's syndrome (n = 114) the percentages were 8.1% and 18.4%, respectively. The corresponding rate of convictions in the comparison groups was 18.9%, 14.7%, and 19.6% respectively. Particular attention is given to arson in Asperger's syndrome (p = .0009).

Key Words: arson • criminal behaviour • pervasive developmental disorders

This version was published on April 1, 2008

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 196-205 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X07302056
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