Parental separation at birth and criminal behaviour in adulthood - A long term follow-up of the finnish Christmas seal home children

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 354-359

  Mäki, Pirjo ^a   Hakko, Helinä ^a   Joukamma, Matti ^b   Läärä, Esa ^a   Isohanni, Matti ^a   Veijola, Juha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^c Hospital District of Lapland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Childhood separation; Criminality; Early separation; Follow up study; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING HOME; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PREVALENCE; RECIDIVISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIOLENCE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CRIMINOLOGY; INFANT; NEWBORN; NURSERY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CRIME; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NURSERIES; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0041976966     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0642-3     Document Type: Article

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