ReviewEClinicalMedicine2022
Interventions to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviours among people in contact with the criminal justice system: A global systematic review.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sex differences in suicide, suicidal ideation, and self-harm after release from incarceration: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
- A novel approach to the assessment of repeat self-harm in prisoners: development and validation of a tool to bridge assessment and treatment (RAPSS).Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2026Article
- Suicide prevention in Latin American prisons: a multiple case study with meta-matrix of policies, programmes and protocols in 17 countries.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Application of co-design to develop and prioritise health literacy-informed action ideas for implementation across prisons in New South Wales, Australia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Landscape of Randomized Controlled Trials for Behavioral Health-Focused Psychosocial Interventions for Youth in the Juvenile Legal System: A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Self-harm and suicide in prisons in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review of prevalence and risk factors.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Suicide prevention following conviction within the criminal justice system: a review of good practice using a social-ecological framework.BMC global and public health · 2025Review
- Post-release behavioral healthcare utilization and suicide risk among formerly incarcerated individuals.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
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- Health and incarceration research in Australia: a scoping review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
- Bridging assessment and treatment for repeat suicidality in prisons: development and validation of a risk model.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- Incidence, ecological factors, and temporal trends of prison homicides and suicides in Chile, 2000-2024.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychiatric and legal considerations for ketamine treatment within prison settings.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association of substance use and other psychiatric disorders with all-cause and external-cause mortality in individuals given community sentences in Sweden: a national cohort study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2023Article
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- Mental health disparities between Spanish and foreign prison inmates: reasons for referral from prison to a specific unit in a general hospital.Revista espanola de sanidad penitenciariaArticle
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.
Funding
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Abstract
backgroundPeople who experience incarceration die by suicide at a higher rate than those who have no prior criminal justice system contact, but little is known about the effectiveness of interventions in other criminal justice settings. We aimed to synthesise evidence regarding the effectiveness of interventions to reduce suicide and suicide-related behaviours among people in contact with the criminal justice system.
methodsWe searched Embase, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and grey literature databases for articles published between 1 January 2000 and 1 June 2021. The protocol was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020185989).
findingsThirty-eight studies (36 primary research articles, two grey literature reports) met our inclusion criteria, 23 of which were conducted in adult custodial settings in high-income, Western countries. Four studies were randomised controlled trials. Two-thirds of studies (n=26, 68%) were assessed as medium quality, 11 (29%) were assessed as high quality, and one (3%) was assessed as low quality. Most had considerable methodological limitations and very few interventions had been rigorously evaluated; as such, drawing robust conclusions about the efficacy of interventions was difficult.
interpretationMore high-quality evidence from criminal justice settings other than adult prisons, particularly from low- and middle-income countries, should be considered a priority for future research.
fundingThis work was funded by the Australian government's National Suicide Prevention Taskforce. RB is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leader Investigator Grant (EL2; GNT2008073). MW is supported by a NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship (GNT1151103). SF was funded by the NIHR HTA Programme (HTA Project:16/159/09).
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