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Sims, Emma E. Trattner, Jonathan D. Garrison, S. Mason |
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Does Depression Lead to Criminal Behavior? A Sibling Comparison Design Using the NLSY Presented: Online, Behavior Genetics Association Annual Meeting, June 29, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Behavior Genetics Association Keyword(s): Crime; Depression (see also CESD); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Relative to the general population, adolescents with psychiatric disorders such as major depression disorder are incarcerated (and reincarcerated) at higher rates (McDougall et al., 2013). Current research is mixed whether this association is a cause, consequence, or familial confound. For example, correctional facility time leads to more depressive symptoms (Fazel et al., 2008), yet depression is associated with antisocial behaviors (e.g., delinquency; Ozkan et al., 2019). Moreover, most studies have failed to incorporate genetic and environmental confounding. Therefore, we employed the discordant kinship model to see whether compared siblings. We examined the direction and timing of the relationship between criminal behavior and depression, using sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979--a nationally representative study. This allowed us to control for within- and between-family variance, reducing plausible confounds in analyzing the causal relationship between depression and delinquency. After controlling for familial confounds, we failed to find a causal link between depression and delinquency. |
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Sims, Emma E., Jonathan D. Trattner and S. Mason Garrison. "Does Depression Lead to Criminal Behavior? A Sibling Comparison Design Using the NLSY." Presented: Online, Behavior Genetics Association Annual Meeting, June 29, 2021. |