He then drove her around town, sexually assaulted her twice, stopped the car and left. The victim was medically treated and examined. Sexual assault and a severe chest wound were confirmed. At the time of his arrest, Williams told the arresting officer he climbed into the back of the victim’s car, a green Buick, while it was parked because he thought it was his brother’s and he wanted to take a nap. During trial, he testified he knew the victim previously, had sex with her prior to that night and on that night.
During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her. When the ambulance arrived and took Tracy away, then they proceeded to arrest Charles. Tracy went to court against the police department of her home town, Torrington, Connecticut for failing to provide her with protection since she was married to her attacker. The court found that Tracey was discriminated against because the violence was a Domestic dispute. She was awarded 2.3 million dollars by the court.
The encounter ends with Brown on the ground with 8 shots in him. What happened that made the officer shoot the teen though? St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar claims “Brown physically assaulted the officer, and during a struggle between the two, Brown reached for the officer's gun. One shot was fired within the car followed by other gunshots outside of the car (Gannett).” How could we possibly know if this was what actually happened though? For all we know the officer is making this story up to protect his career from a possible mistake that he made.
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines’ novel, A Lesson Before Dying takes place in Bayonne, Louisiana in the 1940s. The story is told by Grant Wiggins, a black man that was educated and taught school to black children. The story is about a young uneducated black man named Jefferson who followed a couple of guys into a liquor story one night and the guys tried to rob the store owner. I fight started and the store owner and the two guys were killed. Jefferson did not run so when the police came he was accused of murder and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
(2008, June). NCH Fact Sheet #3. National Coalition for the Homeless: Washington, DC Robins R, Reiger D (1991) Psychiatric disorders in America: The Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. New York: The Free Press. Room R (2005) Alcohol and public health.
"Passenger describes L.A. Police Beating of Driver, Calls it racial," New York Times, March 21, 1991. Freddie Helms was hit in the head while lying on the ground. His bloody baseball cap was turned over to police. Helms were treated for a laceration on the top of his head. "Prosecutor Says Officers Hit Passengers in King's Car," L.A. Times, March 6, 1993.
Public Health and Health Policy Public health action aims to improve the health and well-being of the population, prevent disease whilst minimising its consequences, prolonging life as well as reducing inequalities in health (Orme et al 2003). In the context of public health, homelessness is a major social and public health issue affecting the wider population in the UK (Wilson & Mabhala, 2009), and stakeholders involved. This is due to the identifiable need for housing evidence by the number of people homeless, the various health issues related, including mental health, to homelessness and the risk it can have for public health that will be discussed in this essay. Homelessness is increasing over time and is thought to have implications for both the public health and the healthcare service, particularly as related to the hard to reach nature of this population (Babatsikou, 2010). As such, this essay will identify and discuss the health problems and health service issues associated with homelessness.
Homelessness can be defined as not having a home to live in, not having a stable income, having no support and being forced to live on the street. Robert Swindells Stone Cold is a novel describing the life of a homeless young teen named Link. It exposes the harsh reality and troubles of living homeless and gives an insight in the lives of these people. Homelessness can be seen as an extreme form of social exclusion due to the lack of identity homeless people have, their isolation from the rest of society and the discrimination they suffer in the workforce. Most homeless people have come from troubled backgrounds such as abusive family relationships, lack of support, loss of income and many other reasons which have forced them to be become homeless.
These inmates enter this system with chronic health problems, chronic unemployment and homelessness, and financial instability. These individuals usually tend to not have health care coverage and with their financially instability are unable to support themselves financially thought treatment. They often times also lack a structured support system and positive reinforcement to support their emotional health and stability. These inmates often require specific services and housing needs not typical of other inmates. These inmates while incarcerated often require specialized attention, treatment, medication, and security.
Introduction Working in the mental health field is a love-hate relationship. Mental health continues to be a widely misunderstood phenomenon. Mental health patients are often viewed as patients that have AIDS or HIV. For years the public has had a poor image of mental health patients & people who care for these patients. It is my view that health professionals who work with mental health patients have long been the subject of misconceptions in the public eye and among peers.