What is it about?
This study found that veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a history of criminal justice system involvement are likely to have other risk factors for justice system involvement, but that PTSD by itself does not increase the likelihood of a criminal history.
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Why is it important?
Risk management for justice-involved veterans should consider both the mental health needs of these veterans as well as risk factors for criminality that are typically monitored by correctional system staff.
Perspectives
Though combat exposure and subsequent trauma may lead some veterans down a self-destructive pathway and ultimately incarceration, the story is often more complicated. Many veterans involved in the criminal justice system have other risk factors that led them down this pathway; trauma may be one of those factors but it is not the only one and not likely the most important one.
Daniel Blonigen
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This page is a summary of: Disentangling the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, criminogenic risk, and criminal history among veterans., Law and Human Behavior, October 2023, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000542.
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