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SOC 324 Crime and Violence Issue Worksheet 1. Choose a topic. What is your chosen crime or violence issue? Choose from the following list and provide a brief preliminary overview. Your overview will simply be 1–2 sentences describing why this issue is important to you and to society in general. • DecriminalizaAon of responsible drug use • IntervenAon on the issue of campus rape • Prisons as mental health insAtuAons • MilitarizaAon of police • InsAtuAonalized racism in a chosen area of the criminal jusAce system • Other issue (if approved by instructor) A significant number of incarcerated individuals could potentially derive advantages from alternative forms of punishment instead of being incarcerated, thereby exacerbating issues such as overcrowding, resource scarcity, and mistreatment. The increase in mass incarceration can be attributed to the practice of using prisons as healthcare facilities within our prison system. This topic is significant for society because, as taxpayers, we have a duty to financially support such individuals who have committed offenses.
2. Introduce your social advocacy group. This is an advocacy group of your own creaAon. In other words, if you were to establish an advocacy group dedicated to the work of your issue, what does that advocacy group look like and what are its ulAmate goals (e.g., public awareness, poliAcal acAon, social acAon, changing laws)? • Explain the work the group does related to the topic area. • Explain how the social issue aligns with the group’s ulAmate goals. A advocacy group I would establish would be one of a mulAdisciplinary team which encompasses field such as mental/behavior health medical help, funding iniAaAves and to seek opAonal treatment for offenders who have been found guilty of minor crimes.This goal of this advocacy group aligns with the ongoing issue of the use of correcAonal facility as mental health issues.
3. Begin research: Provide summaries and citaAons of some of the sources you are finding related to this topic area. Include two or more sources here. “According to the Prison Policy Initiative, over 40% of people in jails and prisons have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder and one in four people in jails are experiencing psychological distress.”Prison Policy Initiative. (2022, October 11). Mental health. Initiative, P. P. (n.d.). Mental Health. Retrieved from https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/ mental_health/ Research article titled The Relationship Between Community Public Health, Behavioral Health Service Accessibility, and Mass Incarceration," proposes that the separation of community behavioral health and the criminal legal systems leads to a conflicting need to address mass incarceration and increase the availability of services(Ramezani et al., 2022) Ramezani, N., Breno, A., Mackey, B. J., Viglione, J., Cuellar, A. E., Johnson, J. E., & Taxman, F. S. (2022, July 29). The relationship between community public health, behavioral health service accessibility, and mass incarceration. https://doi.org/10.1186/ s12913-022-08306-6
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