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Recession, crime and mental health

Peay, Jill (2011) Recession, crime and mental health. Papers From the British Criminology Conference, 11. pp. 3-19. ISSN 1759-0043

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Abstract

This article adopts a holistic approach to the complex interconnections between economic circumstances, crime and mental health. It reviews some of the criminological and economic literature on unemployment, property crime, health inequality and worker well-being. It stresses the explanatory importance both of adopting a chronological approach to people’s experience of economic circumstances relative to others and of pursuing economic remedies on two levels: individually (investment in mental health treatment and protective strategies) and at a societal level (avoidance of strategies that will increase unemployment etc). Four conclusions are drawn: first, criminologists should strive to enhance links within and across disciplines; second, that injecting resources into protective strategies may be significantly more cost effective than merely punishing individual offenders; third, that the economic and personal consequences of these issues are sufficiently serious to make this task urgent; and finally, that current economic circumstances should make such proposals irresistible.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.britsoccrim.org/publications.htm#002
Additional Information: © 2011 the authors and the British Society of Criminology
Divisions: Law
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2011 09:32
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 23:10
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/40781

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