The Criminalization of Mental Illness
Research examining the current issue of the criminalization of mental illness and how America's prisons have become a form of asylums. This research emphasizes the abundance of mentally ill offenders and the prevalence of recidivism rates.
Written for
- Institution
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University of New Haven
- Course
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Forensic Psychology
Document information
- Uploaded on
- October 14, 2016
- Number of pages
- 12
- Written in
- 2015/2016
- Type
- CASE
- Professor(s)
- Unknown
- Grade
- A
Subjects
- criminal justice
- mass incarceration
- criminalization
- mental illness
- recidivism
- psychology
- forensic psychology
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crime
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incarceration
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mentally ill offenders
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prisoner
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offenders
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deinstitut
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americas prisons