| Tittel: | Community-Level Relationships Between Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes in Finland | | Ansvar: | Fred E. Markowitz | | Forfatter: | Markowitz, Fred E.  | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2023 | | Omfang: | S. 1-21 | | ISBN/ISSN: | 2578-9821 | | Serie: | Nordic Journal of Criminology ; 1/2023 | | Emneord: | Kriminalitet / Psykiatri / Psykisk helse / Psykisk helsevern / Vitenskapelig publikasjon / Vold | | Geografiske emneord: | Finland | | Note: | Open access. Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) | | Innhold: | Abstract
Advancing macro-level research on relationships between mental healthcare and criminal justice systems, I examine the associations between a more comprehensive set of mental health treatment variables and criminal justice outcomes at the community level in a Nordic country with universal healthcare. Using panel data over a 14-year period for 294 municipalities and 20 hospital districts in Finland, I estimate a series of fixed and random-effects models for the associations between provision of mental health inpatient, outpatient, and supportive housing services and rates of violent crime and imprisonment, taking into account a range of covariates. I find a positive association between rates of psychiatric hospitalization and violent crime. Although much of the relationship between mental healthcare services and criminal justice outcomes is due to shared association with prevalence of mental health problems and alcohol use, I find that provision of supportive housing for persons with a serious mental illness and visits with non-physician mental healthcare personnel may have potential crime-reducing effects.
Keywords: Crime, violence, mental illness, substance abuse, psychiatric hospitals, community treatment | | Del av verk: | Nordic Journal of Criminology 1/2023 |
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