@article{ref1,
title="Pervasive developmental disorders and criminal behaviour: a case control study",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2008",
author="Mouridsen, Svend Erik and Rich, Bente and Isager, Torben and Nedergaard, Niels Jørgen",
volume="52",
number="2",
pages="196-205",
abstract="The prevalence and pattern of criminal behaviour in a population of 313 former child psychiatric in-patients with pervasive developmental disorders were studied. The patients were divided into three subgroups and compared with 933 matched controls from the general population. Age at follow-up was between 25 years and 59 years. An account of convictions in the nationwide Danish Register of Criminality was used as a measure of criminal behaviour. Among 113 cases with childhood autism, .9% had been convicted. In atypical autism (n=86) and Asperger's syndrome (n=114) the percentages were 8.1% and 18.4%, respectively. The corresponding rate of convictions in the comparison groups was 18.9%, 14.7%, and 19.6% respectively. Particular attention is given to arson in Asperger's syndrome (p= .0009).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X07302056",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X07302056"
}