A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
D. Marcotte,S. Markowitz
2009 · DOI: 10.1002/PAM.20544
Journal of policy analysis and management · 60 Citations
TLDR
Some evidence that the expansion of psychiatric drugs is associated with decreased violent crime rates, but not property crime rates is found, and there are no robust impacts on homicide rates and no effects on arrest rates.
