Alysa Torino Hanley English 1/ Period 4 April 3, 2013 Should Mentally Ill Individual be Convicted in Court? Many people believe that if someone is mentally ill, then they cannot be executed for their crimes. This is not true; and individual suffering from a mental illness can be sentenced to death in the United States today. Many seriously mentally ill individuals are set on Death Row in the United States. Yet, why does one get away with it and another does not?
Special populations create a lot of challenges for the prison environment. For example, mental illness. A. Lutz in her article 'Life Is Hard For The 1.3 Million Mental Patients Behind Bars In The US' states "There are 1.25 million mentally ill inmates in the U.S. justice system, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics.' (Lutz, 2012). That's compared to only 40,000 in mental hospitals."
Statistics that support the occurrences of head injuries are as follows according to National SAFE Kids Campaign and the American Academy of Pediatrics (Gfeller Foundation). 1. Statistics show that approximately 3 million children ages 14 and under get hurt. 2. Leading cause of death from a sports-related injury is a brain injury.
The intentional use of a medication that will effect or control an individual’s behaviour, when there is no medically identified diagnosis or treatment, or where the treatment is not warranted for the condition or when being over treated for the condition. Chemical restraints are the use of pharmacological agents to restrict the movement, behaviour and decision making abilities of an individual. Examples of chemical restraints are sedation, antipsychotic, antidepressant, hypnotic, anxiolytics, and antimanic drugs (Australian Medical Association, 2001; Irish Nurses Organisation, 2003). Aversive Restraint. Is the treatment practices or punishment of an individual, the practice of using unpleasant stimuli, this being physical, sensory or verbal?
Cardiac arrhythmias affect more than 700,000 people in England is one of the top ten reasons for hospital admission (Department of Health 2005). Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common and important cardiac arrhythmia, it the most common of all the arrhythmias seen in general practice. AF affects 5% of the UK population over the age of 65 years, rising to 10% in those over 75 years of age (Kirby 2005). The principal significance, both to the patient and the healthcare system is the increased risk of embolic stroke. Atrial fibrillation is associated with 15% of all strokes and with 36% of strokes in patients over the age of 60 (Hobbs 1999).
Their special needs are much different than those who have basic needs. People who suffer from substance abuse have needs in the area of addiction. All these different kinds of people with diverse needs effect the jails and prisons in various ways. If people were not cared for properly there would be negative repercussions. There are programs in prisons that allow these prisoners to be cared for properly.
• In 2006 over 1 million people were treated for drug or alcohol problems. • Reported by the statistical abstract of the U.S 2008 • In the book Addiction, Eric Niiler states “addiction is a disease.” • In the book drug abuse, the office of national drug control policy states “treatment programs have been proven to reduce drug abuse.” IV. Organizations that deal with depression addiction suicide and self injury. • Many people are affected by depression drug abuse and suicide every day. • How many of you know someone having a problem with any of the things I just listed.
Roughly 5% of all adult Americans suffer from a serious illness according to a 2012 report by a division of the 2012 US Department of Health and Human Services. A 2006 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that over half of all prison and jail inmates have some sort of mental health issue. An estimated 1.24 Million suffer from mental health issues which are over 4 times that number in 1998. This research indicates that mental illness is overrepresented within the criminal justice system. The current rates indicate that two to four times that of the normal
Should Castration be an Option? | The Possibilities of Castration | Should castration be voluntary or a requirement? | Rose ZanglDevRy UniversityProfessor Macri7/18/2012 | The past several years, the news of sexual assault against children and adults has been on the rise. The effects on the victims are not only physical but psychological. An interesting study from the FBI uniformed crime reports from 2006 to 2010 shows 54% of rapes/sexual assaults go unreported.
Jewel A. Binns Jr. Dr. DAVID R. MONTAGUE Criminal Justice Policy 982 16 December 2014 The Mentally ill in the Criminal Justice System INTRODUCTION The criminal justice system is confronted with many issues, but in recent years police are having increased contact with individuals with mental health issues. The cause of the increased contact can be contributed to individuals with mental health issues have been moved from facilities into community programs. This move from more restrictive facilities to community setting has increased the probability that encounters between individuals with mental illness and law enforcement officers. The result of these encounters can affect the whole criminal justice system. PROBLEM STATEMENT It has been estimated that 1.2 million individuals suffer from some type of mental illness.