Characteristics of domestic violence perpetrators with dementia from police records using text mining

Autor: Sharon Reutens, George Karystianis, Adrienne Withall, Tony Butler
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 15 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1664-0640
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1331915
Popis: AimFew studies have examined the characteristics of domestic violence (DV) committed by people with dementia. We provide an overview of DV perpetrated by people with dementia in the community based on police reports of attendances at DV events.MethodA text mining method was used on 416,441 New South Wales (NSW) police narratives of DV events from January 2005 to December 2016 to extract information for Persons of Interest (POIs) with mentions of dementia.ResultsEvents involving those with dementia accounted for a relatively low proportion of total DV events (
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