APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING
Project on the Impacts of Crime on the Health of "Victims" and the
Consequent Demands on Health Services
I list below the responses to our call for work in progress or grey
literature on this topic.
I will inform you of the availability of the project report and accompanying
journal article(s) as soon as they are ready.
Thank you to everyone who replied.
Susan Childs, Information Studies Researcher
Centre for Health Studies, University of Durham
Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
Tel: 0191 374 4734; Fax: 0191 374 7010
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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From: Debbi Stanistreet <[log in to unmask]>
We produced a book earlier this year based on a conference
we ran entitled 'Violence and Public Health; Developing a
Policy Agenda.' ISBN 1 874038 51 1
Eds, Stanistreet D, Jeffrey V, Bellis M.
They can be be purchased by writing to the address below,
cost £5.00
debbi Stanistreet
Lecturer in Public Health
Department of Public Health
Whelan Building
Quadrangle
Liverpool L69 3GB
United Kingdom
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From: rm108 <[log in to unmask]>
i don't know whether the
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
University of York, York, YO10 5DD
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maybe able to help you on this sue
their webpage is
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm
and i noticed that their ongoing reviews page
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/listong.htm
includes the following
Mentally disordered offenders (1) Therapeutic communities in psychiatric
and other secure settings
Mentally disordered offenders (2) Services for women mentally
disordered offenders
Mentally disordered offenders (3) Epidemiology of mentally disordered
offenders
Mentally disordered offenders (4) Scoping review on the health and
other aspects of mentally disordered offenders
which suggests that they MAY be doing something
in areas related to your's ?
it seems like an interesting study
of an area that i know nothing about
but i did wonder whether , in looking
at the links between health & crime ,
you'd be examining how (eg. mental)
health affects the propensity to offend
(1st or nth time) & whether there are
health-care or other interventions that
may reduce crime and hence any demands
on services by victims ?
rob manning
dphil student & temporary lecturer
dept of economics & related studies
university of york
york yo10 5dd
uk
phone: 0 (+44) 1904 433798/0
fax: 0 (+44) 1904 433759
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From: Rob James <[log in to unmask]>
This may not be the road you want to go down, but there are two American
traditions that you might want to consider. The first is focused on
the common social patterning of violence and certain health/illness
patterns.
Roderick & Deborah Wallace are clear touchstones here -- wonderfully radical
folks.
The other tradition is the violence as public health issue -- starts with
Koop, et al, and the argument is that
violence is a public health issue because of its consequences, especially
for the young, minorities, etc. The Am J Pub Hlth run stuff in this vein
quite frequently.
The most thoughtful stuff on violence, generally, is by Robert Sampson, see
his paper
with Earls and ?, last summer in Science. This is a good place to begin.
This is an important, and fruitful area. I would encourage you to broaden
your remit to
work outside of the obvious framing of this issue, eg: that the relationship
of crime and health and public health is along the lines of
someone gets beaten up, spends two days in hospital, etc.
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From: James Munro <[log in to unmask]>
We published a short piece on this issue last year in Health Matters. I can
send it if you don't have it.
When you are further on with the study, we'd be very interested in
publishing a non-academic feature in Health Matters.
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From: [log in to unmask]
your e-mail was passed to me by a colleague who knew I was attempting
something similar. I have asked for some original articles referenced in
Public Health Alliance's Framing the Debate and will send copies onto you
when/if they arrive. I would be grateful for any scraps you can throw my way
as i try to encourage colleagues to look further than actual crime
statistics when planning interventions! good luck
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From: P. Bywaters <[log in to unmask]>
It's perhaps not what you are looking for but Des O'Neill wrote about the
significance of crime for older people in his chapter in Bywaters, P. and
McLeod, E. (eds.) Working for Equality in Health published by Routledge
in 1996.
Paul Bywaters
Head of Social Work
School of Health and Social Sciences
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
tel.: 01203 838957
fax.: 01203 838300
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From: [log in to unmask]
I understand that you are doing a study on the impact of crime on health.
The Health and Safty Executive (HSE) develops policy on behalf of the Health
and Safety Commission on work-related violence. As policy adviser on this
issue, I am very interested in the health effects of work-related violence
eg where a member of the public assaults, either verbally or physically, an
employee.
I am therefore very interested in the results of your work if you expect it
to provide information specifically related to work-related violence. When
do you expect this project to finish and the results to be available?
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From: Fran Ferrari <[log in to unmask]>
Hello, I am finally going over and catching up on my emails. I am in
Oklahoma City and an injured survivor of the 1995 bombing. As an outcome
of that tragedy, several studies were initiated at several agencies.
First, I have been a participant in an epidemiological study conducted by
the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Our state health
department also has collected some statistics about injuries and continues
to do follow-up. Also, several faculty at the Health Sciences Center have
also worked on some outcomes.
Let me know if you are interested in more information. Fran Ferrari
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From: Rosalyn Harper, Middlesex Probation Service.
Tel: 0171 436 7121 ext 219
They are interested in the health of people on probation and the demands
they make on health services. The Probation Officer is their only / main
link to the health service. Interested in probation officers' knowledge of
health services so they are able to inform / advise their clients.
Useful reference:
Consumer survey of victims. Hereford and Worcester Probation Service. Barry
Johns ACPO. 3/4 Shaw St, Worcester, WR1 3QQ. Tel: 01905 723 766
(Details from Association of Chief Officers of Probation Information
Bulletin 30th July 1998)
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