The Russian–Ukrainian war, initiated in 2014 and dramatically escalated in February 2022, has generated long-term psychosocial and criminological consequences extending beyond the direct conflict zone. The Podkarpackie Voivodeship, as a Polish border region with Ukraine and a key corridor for refugees and humanitarian aid, constitutes a natural laboratory for analysing the indirect impact of war on mental health, self-destructive behaviours and crime in a frontline-adjacent context. The paper examines changes in the prevalence and clinical profile of mental disorders (including anxiety, depression, PTSD, acute stress reactions and substance use disorders), self-destructive behaviours (suicide attempts, non-suicidal self-injury and chronic self-neglect) and selected categories of crime among children, adolescents and adults in Podkarpackie. The study employs a mixed-methods design, combining: (1) analysis of police and court statistics; (2) health-care, emergency and psychiatric service data; and (3) qualitative material from semi-structured interviews with practitioners (psychiatrists, psychologists, crisis intervention workers, educators, probation officers and police officers).

Authors:
Karol Bajda, University of Rzeszów, Poland

About the Presenter(s)
Dr.Karol Bajda,MD,PhD(Law)–Head of the Criminology and Suicidology Laboratory, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Rzeszów. Member of project “Migrants from Ukraine in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship: Socio-Economic Implications”

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