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Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes

Frank, Richard - 2010

-effective way to reduce crime and lower criminal justice costs? This paper reviews and evaluates the evidence assessing the … potential of expansion of mental health services for reducing crime. Mental illness and symptoms of mental illness are highly … augment the empirical research base relating mental illness to crime. In a recent community sample of adults, we find higher …

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Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36

Nicosia, Nancy - 2012

Like other states, minorities are disproportionately represented in the California's state prison system, particularly for drug offenses. Unlike other states, California has had a policy of mandatory diversion to drug treatment for non-violent drug offenders since mid-2001 (Proposition 36)....

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How Do Youth with Mental Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?

Chatterji, Pinka - 2006

disorders to be sanctioned conditional on committing a particular crime. The major public policy concern is around the latter …

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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

Frank, Richard G. - 2009

Recent models of human capital formation represent a synthesis of the human capital approach and a life cycle view of human development that is grounded in neuroscience (Heckman 2007). This model of human development, the stability of the home and parental mental health can have notable impacts...

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Mental Health Parity Legislation, Cost-Sharing and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2008

Treatment is highly cost-effective in reducing an individual's substance abuse (SA) and associated harms. However, data from Treatment Episodes (TEDS) indicate that per capita treatment admissions substantially lagged behind increases in heavy drug use from 1992-2007. Only ten percent of...

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The Relationships between Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Juvenile Crime

Cuellar, Alison Evans - 2003

crimes committed by juveniles. The observed high correlations between crime, substance abuse and poor mental health suggests …

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Mental Illness and the Demand for Alcohol, Cocaine and Cigarettes

Saffer, Henry - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect that mental illness has on the demand for addictive goods. Mental illness could affect the level of consumption of addictive goods and could affect the price elasticities of addictive goods. Demand theory suggests that mental illness would...

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Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

Frank, Richard G. - 1998

Background: Parity in insurance coverage for mental health and substance abuse has been a key goal of mental health and substance abuse care advocates in the United States during most of the past 20 years. The push for parity began during the era of indemnity insurance and fee for service...

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Mental Health, Substance Use, and Child Maltreatment

Ali, Mir M.; Thanh Lu; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Child maltreatment is a pressing concern in the United States, with more than four million children referred to child protective services in 2022. Reducing child maltreatment is a national health objective given the substantial, negative consequences for children who experience maltreatment,...

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Ridesharing and Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Lennon, Conor; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine whether ridesharing provides a meaningful transportation alternative for those who require ongoing healthcare. Specifically, we combine variation in UberX entry across the U.S. with the Treatment Episode Data Set to estimate the effect of ridesharing on admissions to substance use...

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