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Article History

Received: 20 August 2021

Accepted: 12 November 2021

First Online: 10 January 2022

Declarations

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: This study is a secondary data analysis of existing data. The ethics approval and consent to participate in the existing data was captured in the original publications [CitationRef removed–CitationRef removed]. All experimental protocols were approved by the relevant institutions at those times (1997: Department of Corrective Services Ethics Committee and NSW Corrections Health Service Research and Ethics Committee; to 2009: Justice Health Human Research Ethics Committee, the Department of Corrective Services Ethics Committee, and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council Ethics Committee). All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The ethics approval and consent to participate allowed the use of data for future studies such as this one. Approval for this study (i.e., secondary data analysis to examine the health of specific offender groups (e.g., sex offenders)) was provided by the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee (G70/14).

: Consent for publication for the health surveys and subsequent analyses was captured in the original publications [CitationRef removed–CitationRef removed].

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.