Poor Parental Supervision Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury and Reactive Aggression in Young Offenders.

Objective: To establish whether poor parental supervision is associated with head injury and self-reported reactive aggression (ie, aggression in response to perceived provocation or threat) in adolescents in a Young Offender's Institute, by examining correlations between these variables. Understanding this population is important, as they are at a key pivotal age for intervention to prevent lifelong reoffending.

Methods: Ninety-six male participants aged 16 to 18 years were recruited from a UK Young Offender's Institute.

The consequences of traumatic brain injury from the classroom to the courtroom: understanding pathways through structural equation modelling.

Paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have resultant ongoing significant impairments which can impact life outcomes. The primary aim of this research was to explore whether TBI contributes to the relationship between poor educational outcomes and offending trajectories. Through analysis of a dataset consisting of self-reported health, educational, and offending histories of 70 incarcerated young males, structural equation modelling was used to explore the mediation of educational outcomes and patterns in offending behaviour by chronic symptoms following TBI.