March 15, 2013

violent offending and the military

There has been a lot of media coverage and public debate about violence committed by veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A paper in the Lancet is the first large-scale study of its kind. It links data from 13,856 randomly selected serving and ex-serving UK military personnel with national criminal records to assess the impact of deployment,  combat exposure, and post-deployment mental health problems on subsequent offending behaviour.

Speakers: 

Sir Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine and co-director of King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London

Dr Deirdre MacManus, forensic psychiatrist and clinical lecturer at King’s College London

Dr Nicola Fear, epidemiologist and co-director of the King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London