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The Relationships between Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Juvenile Crime / Alison Evans Cuellar, Sara Markowitz, Anne M. Libby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuellar, Alison Evans.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9952.
- NBER working paper series no. w9952
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of mental health and substance abuse treatment in reducing crimes committed by juveniles. The observed high correlations between crime, substance abuse and poor mental health suggests that factors which reduce substance abuse and improve mental health may also be effective in reducing criminal activities. This paper uses detention data in conjunction with substance abuse and mental health treatment data for youth enrolled in the Colorado state foster care program. We analyze the impact of treatment in delaying or preventing this group of at-risk youth from engaging in criminal behavior. Results show a negative effect, i.e., longer duration before detention, for youth who receive treatment and for youth in areas with high treatment rates.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2003.
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