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
The CIT program is proactive and preventative and is used to confront dangerous situations involving the mentally ill (James & Gilliland). These situations can potentially be very dangerous, even life threatening, and put the mentally ill and the responding officers, public, and other response personnel in jeopardy (James & Gilliland). The main goal of the CIT program is to increase public safety, protect the mentally ill and any responding personnel, and increase public awareness on mental health issues (James & Gilliland). CIT programs involve an alliance between
Historical Maltreatment of Psychiatric Inpatients in Western Culture Marilyn Alm Abnormal Psychology 3110 History of Maltreatment of Psychiatric Inpatients Capella University January, 2014 History of Maltreatment All throughout history, people have not known how to deal with the mentally ill. They have labeled them as outcasts, “less than human”, and left them with nowhere to go. Many of these sufferers are mentally ill and homeless, destitute and in strict survival mode. Their families have neglected them or given up hope. Conditions are less than optimal for the homeless.
(Baumohl, 2001) Some people felt like homelessness was caused by heavy drinking, drug abuse, and mental problems. Because of the new policies the government made, these people were not allowed to be housed in hospitals and jails. “Homelessness was described mainly as a problem in the rehabilitation and control of troubled and troublesome people who were not only houseless but barred from their traditional institutional shelters and estranged from family and friends who might take them in”. (Baumohl, p.
“An estimated 22 percent of male blacks ages 35 to 44 have confined in federal or state prison, compared to 10 percent of male Hispanics and 3.5 percent of male whites (Peak, 2007).” According to a certain research, racism comes out at certain points of the justice system, but discrimination does not exist. The majority of minorities are all linked to some part in crime, whether in poverty, drugs, or the influences they were around. The high numbers of minorities always cause trouble for the administrators. Correctional officers go through tough problems and have certain needs in order to get their job done. Drug use in prison is one of the main problems they face.
In the 2000, there were 20,000 White people working for Microsoft, and 544 Black people working for Microsoft. That is the most incredible statistic I could find. 5) Racial discrimination is a serious problem in the Judicial System. About 98% of the Judges are White. Black men are 8 times more likely to be put in prison then White men.
Running Head: Homelessness and Mental Illness Homelessness and Mental Illness August 6, 2010 Abstract There are well over a million homeless people in Western Europe and North America, but reliable estimates of the prevalence of major mental disorders among this population are lacking. The solutions needed are likely to vary considerably by type of disorder, despite commonalities in some of the serious consequences such as victimization, criminality, suicide, and death from other causes. Homelessness among people living with psychotic disorders, for instance, is often linked to deinstitutionalization in Western countries, although the analysis of the apparent failure of community care does not support a causal role (Leff, 2004).
On any given day, about 70,000 are psychotic. These numbers represent a severe crisis for prison systems throughout the country. The report discusses two main reasons why the numbers have risen to a crisis level. First, as a result of the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, many mental health hospitals were closed, but community mental health systems which were envisioned as taking the place of hospitals did not develop sufficiently. Many mentally ill—particularly the poor—are now without access to help.
Cameron Booker Criminology Dr. Anadi November 12, 2013 However, in 2002 about a quarter of convicted property and drug offenders in local jails had committed their crimes to get money for drugs, compared to 5% of violent and public order offenders. Among state prisoners in 2004 the pattern was similar, with property (30%) and drug offenders (26%) more likely to commit their crimes for drug money than violent (10%) and public-order offenders (7%). In federal prisons property offenders (11%) were less than half as likely as drug offenders (25%) to report drug money as a motive in their offenses. College student victims Overall 41% of violent crimes committed against college students and 38% of nonstudents were committed by an offender perceived to be using drugs, 1995-2000. About 2 in 5 of all rape/sexual assaults and about a quarter of all
Juveniles Tried As Adults John Doe English 1A Professor Education November 13, 2014 Juveniles Should Be Tried As Adults For Violent Crimes. Over 500,000 juveniles are taken into custody every year in the United States. Although the arrests of juveniles may fluctuate on a yearly basis, Snyder and Sickmund (2006) stated in 2003 alone there were 2.2 million arrests made comprised of persons under the age of 18. There are roughly 12.5 million arrests made every year in the United States and with 2.2 million of those arrests being juveniles, that enormous number becomes a very alarming one. Two hundred and fifty thousand juveniles are tried and sentenced for their crimes as adults every year in the United States.