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Twenty-two countries—and wide differences in detention rates
Median 106.4 per 100,000; Austria highest at 282, Italy lowest at 14.5, Finland 218; England rose from 83.7 (2007–08) to 114.1 (2015–16); no relationship between rates and any characteristic of the legal framework, nor with demographic, economic or service indicators
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 6
- Country / period
- 22 countries (Europe, Australia, New Zealand), 2008–2017
- Mechanism
- Comparative involuntary-hospitalisation rates
- What is documented
- Median 106.4 per 100,000; Austria highest at 282, Italy lowest at 14.5, Finland 218; England rose from 83.7 (2007–08) to 114.1 (2015–16); no relationship between rates and any characteristic of the legal framework, nor with demographic, economic or service indicators
- Finding or status
- Peer-reviewed (Sheridan Rains et al., Lancet Psychiatry 6:403, 2019; open data set)
- Contrary evidence / limits
- Rates are not misuse; but the finding undercuts the assumption, implicit in every reform in section 6, that procedural safeguards govern how often detention is used
- Label
- VERIFIED
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Linked corrections
| D06 — 2019-EU-22-COUNTRY | Called the Sheridan Rains study "the control group for the whole record" and said it shows safeguards do not govern coercion | It is an observational cross-national comparison of detention incidence; it measures neither wrongful nor retaliatory detention and cannot show that safeguards fail | Accepted | "Control group" language withdrawn; the row now says only that coded legal features were not associated with incidence across 22 countries, with definitional and implementation differences unexamined |
Reference and provenance
2019-EU-22-COUNTRY