Does Homicide Influence Psychiatric Hospitalization to a Mental Health Facility?

There have been much public discussions on the state of crime, especially homicide, in the Caribbean). In 2007, a group of scholars from the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica, West Indies, conducted a national stratified random sample cross-sectional survey of 1,338 respondents. They found that crime was the leading national problem identified by the respondents (i.e., 44/100). Prior to 2007, the issue of crime was a problem in the Caribbean to the point where a conference was held in Barbados in 1999 - Tourism and Crime Conference in the Barbados – in order to address the challenges, find solutions, examine the consequences and control the escalating crime and violence phenomena.

Despite the efforts of criminologists, demographers, sociologists and public policy specialists, the crime problem persist following the meeting of scholars in 1999. Then in 2012, a new group of academicians empirically linked murders andpolitics, and in 2015, Bourne and colleaguesexamined the psychology of homicide in Jamaica and argued that crime is at a pandemic stage. Such disclosures speak to the continued unresolved difficulty to address the crime problem, especially homicide, by governments.Undoubtedly, the rate of homicide in the Caribbean is an issue and rightfully so; but, there is no such focus on psychiatric conditions. Read more..........