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The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review
BACKGROUND: Prearrest diversion strategies are being adopted across the Western world, enabling the police to identify and divert people suspected of having mental disorder towards health and community services rather than the criminal justice system. AIMS: To quantify longer‐term criminal justice a...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30972840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2112 |
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author | Schucan Bird, Karen Shemilt, Ian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Prearrest diversion strategies are being adopted across the Western world, enabling the police to identify and divert people suspected of having mental disorder towards health and community services rather than the criminal justice system. AIMS: To quantify longer‐term criminal justice and mental health outcomes after prearrest diversion of people with suspected mental disorder and consider economic correlates. METHODS: A systematic review of published literature on longer term outcomes after prearrest diversion. RESULTS: Only two quasi‐experimental studies, with four independent samples, could be included. Findings for criminal and mental health outcomes were inconclusive, but potential for adverse outcomes was identified. Ten studies with cost data suggested that prearrest diversion can lead to overall cost savings. CONCLUSIONS: There is still inadequate evidence on which to base prearrest diversion programmes. Although some benefits have been identified by the review, so have possible harms. Future research and funding strategies must build in high‐quality, systematic evaluation of outcomes before implementing a theoretically attractive strategy more widely. |
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spelling | pubmed-68500792019-11-15 The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review Schucan Bird, Karen Shemilt, Ian Crim Behav Ment Health Original Articles BACKGROUND: Prearrest diversion strategies are being adopted across the Western world, enabling the police to identify and divert people suspected of having mental disorder towards health and community services rather than the criminal justice system. AIMS: To quantify longer‐term criminal justice and mental health outcomes after prearrest diversion of people with suspected mental disorder and consider economic correlates. METHODS: A systematic review of published literature on longer term outcomes after prearrest diversion. RESULTS: Only two quasi‐experimental studies, with four independent samples, could be included. Findings for criminal and mental health outcomes were inconclusive, but potential for adverse outcomes was identified. Ten studies with cost data suggested that prearrest diversion can lead to overall cost savings. CONCLUSIONS: There is still inadequate evidence on which to base prearrest diversion programmes. Although some benefits have been identified by the review, so have possible harms. Future research and funding strategies must build in high‐quality, systematic evaluation of outcomes before implementing a theoretically attractive strategy more widely. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-04-10 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6850079/ /pubmed/30972840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2112 Text en © 2019 The Authors Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Schucan Bird, Karen Shemilt, Ian The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title | The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title_full | The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title_fullStr | The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title_short | The crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: A systematic review |
title_sort | crime, mental health, and economic impacts of prearrest diversion of people with mental health problems: a systematic review |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30972840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2112 |
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