Contact with the criminal justice system may be associated with suicide risk

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 13:10 in Health & Medicine

Men and women who have had contact with the criminal justice system - even if they have never received a jail or prison sentence or a guilty verdict - appear to have a significantly higher rate of suicide than the general population, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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