. 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.
Decriminalization of responsible drug
use
Intervention on the issue of campus
rape
Prisons as mental health institutions
Militarization of police
Institutionalized racism in a chosen area
of the criminal justice system
Other issue (if approved by instructor)
The topic have chosen to research is the issue of prisons being used as mental institutions.
Ever since deinstitutionalization in the ’60s, which was well-intended but not properly followed through with, the rate of those incarcerated with severe mental illness has skyrocketed to where it was before asylums were utilized (St. John, 2016).
A majority of these offenders have co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders. With the implementation of proper behavioral treatment programs, the
numbers of those incarcerated with severe mental illness and the rate of
reoffending can be significantly decreased.
This issue is important to me as am working with the goal of improving the prevention and treatment of personality disorders. It is important to society because this treatment
would reduce crime, substance use, and re-offending.
2. Introduce your social advocacy group. This is an advocacy group of your own creation. 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 ultimate goals (e.g., public awareness, political action, social action, changing laws)?
Explain the work the group does related to the topic area.
Explain how the social issue aligns with the group’s ultimate goals.
The social advocacy group would establish would consist of forensic
psychologists and social workers who are dedicated to the rehabilitation of
offenders with severe mental illness and substance use disorders.
This group would also advocate for the early intervention of substance use and
mental health disorders.
The kind of work this group would do includes,
Generating public support about the issue and raising awareness
about what kind of treatment programs and prevention methods
there are.
Enacting policies that change how prisons treat the mental health
of their offenders.
Increasing the use of data and analytics to predict who is at risk of
offending and re-offending.
Providing prevention methods and treatment options for those at
risk.
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