| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15354 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15354 |
| A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends | |
| Dave E. Marcotte; Sara Markowitz | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-09-17 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In this paper we consider possible links between the advent and diffusion of a number of new psychiatric pharmaceutical therapies and crime rates. We describe recent trends in crime and review the evidence showing mental illness as a clear risk factor both for criminal behavior and victimization. We then briefly summarize the development of a number of new pharmaceutical therapies for the treatment of mental illness which diffused during the "great American crime decline." We examine limited international data, as well as more detailed American data to assess the relationship between crime rates and rates of prescriptions of the main categories of psychotropic drugs, while controlling for other factors which may explain trends in crime rates. We find that increases in prescriptions for psychiatric drugs are associated with decreases in violent crime, with the largest impacts associated with new generation antidepressants and stimulants used to treat ADHD. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15354 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573029 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dave E. Marcotte,Sara Markowitz. A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends. 2009. |
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| w15354.pdf（254KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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