Psychopathics In Prisons

Everyday correctional officials work to deal with mental health inmates. Often hotly debated, many search for ways to work with this growing population. Glaze and Bonczar (2009) estimate around 2.3 million people are incarcerated within the US and of those, 20 percent suffer from some form of mental disorder. Even with such a high number, the rate of mental illnesses within the prison system is on the climb. Many of these inmates will remain incarcerated and receive little to no treatment for their mental issues. This essay, will look at the practices associated when dealing with mental illness and discuss the strategies on dealing with this growing issue.

Around the 1970’s and 1980’s around the United States many mental hospitals were shut down. There were many reasons why they closed these Asylums was because money, and knowing that there was only about twenty county asylums were built around the country. The asylums also known as the Looney bin was established in Britain after passing in 1808 county asylum act. There were so many patients in these asylums around the world in 1955 about 558,239 severely mentally ill people in the United States were accounted for. Now in these times any mentally ill people don’t get help they just go straight to jail without proper diagnosis or treatment. People need to know these people need extreme care and treatment. Even regular people or considered the norm in today’s society eventually go crazy when they’re in prison too long. We have as much people that are mentally ill as regularly incarcerated. There is one prison in Houston Texas that does take care there mentally ill. We have about 2.2 million

Gang violence is nationwide and is one of the most prominent problems in the prison system today. Gangs are known to attempt to control the prisons/jails, instill fear within the prison system and throughout the society, and bring negative attention to the system. “Gang affiliated inmates comprise about 18 percent of the 18000 inmate population.”(Seabrook) A growing numbers of inmates and a large amount of them serving longer sentences for violent crimes suggest a notable increase in gangs and violence in the prison system in the upcoming future.

Mental illness is a very serious situation considering that many jails have more ill people that any hospital. Prisons are not set up for ill people. But they pick the mental ill people form the streets do to the fact they can not support them self. The main goal for this institution is to help out the mentally ill. Some inmate’s target the weak, and the inmates that need help would become easy prey. If an inmate even looks at an ill person it is a clear target that can easily be harmfully harassed. I am against mental ill inmates being in prison and jail considering that they can not defend them self.

In order to protect oneself from a sociopath, one must understand the inner clockwork of one, in order to both diagnose others, or even self diagnose. Because of the danger of a sociopath and there chamelion like talent to blend in with the general community, they are very hard to identify, but knowing how to is crucial to keep oneself safe.

"Everyone who is imprisoned inside Norwegian prisons will be released and will go back to society. We look at what kind of neighbour you want to have when they come out. If you stay in a box for a few years, then you are not a good person when you come out. If you treat them hard… well, we don't think that treating them hard will make them a better man. We don't think about revenge in the Norwegian prison system. We have much more focus on rehabilitation”, Guardian newspaper (2012).

It is not fair to have mentally ill offenders in prison. But not only is it not fair, it is also not right for them. How is it fair someone who can not control their mind be put in jail? They do not deserve to be in there. They need help, they need someone to show them what is right, they just need someone to be there for help .

Mental illness affects roughly 56 percent of state prison inmates and 64 percent of jail inmates. It is a disorder that interferes with mental cognition involving changed thinking, emotion, behavior, or a combination of both. Several things are thought to be correlated with mental illness among the incarcerated. Some examples include prior life stressors, gender differences, prison life environment, etc (Drapalski et al., 2009; Gosein, Stiffler, Frascoia, & Ford, 2015). In the present paper, the role mental illness plays in the life of incarcerated inmates is investigated. It is hypothesized that individuals diagnosed with a mental illness are more likely to be incarcerated than inmates without a mental

If a society is to be judged how it treats its most disadvantaged members, then the United States is in a very lowly state of affairs. The United States currently incarcerates over 356,000 individuals diagnosed with some form of mental illness. This is ten-fold the number of people receiving treatment in psychiatric hospitals, around 35,000 (Frances). Leaving us with the question, when did suffering from a mental illness become a crime worthy of incarceration? Doubt no longer remains as to if the this system is broken, as indicated by recent report from the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs’ Association, which after surveying sheriffs and prison administrators, concluded on three main points. Mental illness among prison populations are growing in numbers as well as severity, prison and jail officers feel compelled to supply a hospital level treatment regimen, and that the problem originates in the mediocre aftercare provided for those who are released accompanied by the continual closure of state psychiatric centers (Felthous). What must be asked now is how does one mend a system on the edge of crisis. There are many propositions on how this may be done, but they can be summed up into the following strategies: the creation of resources to intervene before situations ever become critical, newer and better training of first responders, EMTs, and police officers in mental health emergencies, reformation in the way judges sentence those suffering from

Long-term patterns of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others are qualities that are often related to criminal behavior. This is a mental condition that is defined as Antisocial Personality Disorder by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Antisocial Personality Disorder, or otherwise known as ASPD, is a disorder that fits into two essential categories: psychopathy and sociopathy. ASPD can be caused by many deformations within the brain, these deformations can be caused by a number of outside influences including child abuse and parental neglect. With this in mind, psychopathy and sociopathy are two different forms of this very severe mental disorder. Not

To understand Sampson and Laubs life course theory. You have to first look back to Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks work. The husband and wife duo partnership studied criminology on inmates at the Massachusetts Reformatory. They examined recidivism rates in the penitentiary.

Radicalization process in prisons in not a new phenomenon. Prisons have served as a school for criminals throughout history. The education the inmates receive in these institutions can be either positive and allow them to progress once they are out, or very negative and lead to radicalize inmates with extreme ideologies. It is crucial to understand the definition of radicalization, which is a process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or reject and/or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of freedom of choice. Throughout history prisons have bred racial ideologies that spread not only in prison but throughout

Several crime rates and trends make it possible to recognize the stark differences between the two regions. Incarceration rates measure the number of people serving time out of 100,000 people from the total population. The imprisonment rate in the United States is drastically higher than in the Nordic region. In a 2007-2008 study by the International Centre for Prison Studies, Scandinavian countries had the lowest imprisonment rates in Europe at an average of 67 per 100,000 people. Western European countries ranged from 65-160, with an average of 103 per 100,000; the United States ranked the highest with 756 per 100,000 people (fig. 1) (Lappi-Seppälä and Tonry 2011). When looking at violent crimes, the trend continues. The Nordic region has among the lowest homicide rates in the world (fig. 2) (Kivivuori and Lehti 2011; Lappi-Seppälä and Tonry 2011). While these drastic differences are indicative of the gap between the two regions, other trends are needed in order to obtain a more complete picture of crime.

It is reported regularly that violence is a serious problem in Australian jails as well. A West Australian survey found that ‘prisons are dangerous places where the threat of violence is ever present.’ (Goulding, 2007) When prisoners are living in a constant state of fear they are more likely to deal with this by becoming perpetrators themselves due to the relentless exposure. The interviews conducted by Goulding demonstrated that inmates had a casual attitude to violence on account of their constant exposure to it. One inmate reported, ‘Before, I'd have to struggle to act violently. Now, 1 have to struggle not to.’

Bureau of Justice found that within 3 years, around 70% of released prisoners were rearrested again. For a country with a tough stance on crime, they don’t seem to be having the desired effect. Norwegian prisons are known to be one of the most ‘humane’ in the world, as they believe in rehabilitation rather than punishment. To give an idea, mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, is imprisoned in a luxurious three-room cell with access to television, a computer and video games. Their main focus is to prepare inmates for life back in society. Although the US employs harsher penalties, their violent crime murder rate is still 448 times more than Norway. Sweden Rehabilitation is an alternative and perhaps more effective