Productivity loss, victim costs and the intangible costs of crime: Followup to a longitudinal study of criminal justice system involvement and costs of women with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders in Sweden
2014 (English)In: Mental Health and Substance Use, ISSN 1752-3281, E-ISSN 1752-3273, Vol. 7, no 2, p. 102-109Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study aimed to estimate the cumulative productivity losses and victim costs incurred between 1975 and 2005 as a result of crimes committed by a cohort of women with a co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorder placed in a compulsory treatment facility for substance abuse between 1997 and 2000. As such, this adds to a prior study estimating the direct criminal justice system costs incurred for crimes committed by the same group during the same period. Official register data were obtained for the period 1975-2005 on a consecutive sample of 227 women. Total productivity losses due to homicide and incarceration as well as victim costs totaled approximately 250,000 Swedish crowns (2010 values, non-discounted) per person. Productivity losses and victim costs as estimated in this study accounted for roughly 19-25% of the societal costs of crimes committed by this group.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2014. Vol. 7, no 2, p. 102-109
Keywords [en]
Cooccurring disorders, Costs, Crime, Productivity, Women, adolescent, adult, article, crime victim, criminal justice, female, follow up, homicide, human, longitudinal study, major clinical study, mental disease, offender, priority journal, substance abuse, Sweden, young adult
National Category
Social Work Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-58927DOI: 10.1080/17523281.2013.806344Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84896712107OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-58927DiVA, id: diva2:1711461
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