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November 2005, Vol 95, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 2015-2021
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.021436

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Mental Disorder and Violent Victimization in a Total Birth Cohort

Eric Silver, PhD, Louise Arseneault, PhD, John Langley, PhD, Avshalom Caspi, PhD and Terrie E. Moffitt, PhD

Eric Silver is with the Sociology Department at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. Louise Arseneault is with the Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom. John Langley is with the University of Otago, New Zealand. Avshalom Caspi and Terrie E. Moffitt are with the Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom, and with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Eric Silver, Crime, Law and Justice Program, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802 (e-mail: exs44{at}psu.edu).

Objective. We examined the association between mental disorder and violent victimization in a general population sample.

Methods. We performed a multivariate analysis of violent victimization in a 12-month period on a total birth cohort with follow-up data that assessed, during their 21st year, males and females born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s.

Results. Compared with people with no mental disorder, (1) people with anxiety disorders experienced more sexual assaults, (2) people with schizophreniform disorders experienced more threatened and completed physical assaults, (3) people with alcohol dependence disorders experienced more completed physical assaults, and (4) people with marijuana dependence disorders experienced more attempted physical assaults. These results held after control for psychiatric comorbidity, demographic characteristics, and the study participants’ own violent behavior.

Conclusion. Mentally disordered young adults tend to experience more violent victimization in the community than those without a mental disorder.






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