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What is the relationship between mental health problems and offending?

April 26, 2017mental health offending problems relationship

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What is the relationship between mental health problems and offending?

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• 10-20 per cent of young people involved in criminal activity are thought to have a ‘psychiatric disorder’. • In England and Wales an estimated 66 per cent of the remand population had mental health problems compared with 39 per cent of the sentenced population.