ap lang arg. 4 source exploration by Daniela Wise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u looking for sources to fit my argument en-us 2021-02-04 03:47:49 UTC 2024-02-21 11:05:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Argument no. 4: The manner that those with mental health struggles are treated in the criminal justice system is a dangerous reflection/consequence of misinformed people with power. dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1161848229 2021-02-04 03:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1161848229 source 4a: Psychiatric Illness And Criminality dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1161850347 2021-02-04 03:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1161850347 common misconceptions about people with mental illness committing acts of violence and aggression more often dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179960455 "The public perception of psychiatric patients as dangerous individuals is often rooted in the portrayal of criminals in the media as “crazy” individuals.  A large body of data suggests otherwise. People with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.[1] This bias extends all the way to the criminal justice system, where persons with mental illness get treated as criminals, arrested, charged, and jailed for a longer time in jail compared to the general population.]]> 2021-02-09 01:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179960455 a lot of illnesses are commonly mislabeled/other things are fabricated dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179964415 "The high levels of reported mental illness in jail and prison populations is primarily due to false labeling of criminals as having a psychiatric illness. These figures are not always based on thorough medical and psychiatric evaluation and diagnosis, but rather as a result of social factors."]]> 2021-02-09 01:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179964415 lack of awareness and resources about how to handle these ppl -> arrested more often dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179970173 "People with mental illness are arrested and sent to prison in disproportionate numbers,[5] often due to a lack of awareness and resources in handling these individuals. The police often arrest these individuals for petty crimes such as jaywalking or wandering behavior as a preventive law and order measure.[5] "

"The closure of state psychiatric hospitals which began with the deinstitutionalization drive in 1960 forced many psychiatric patients on the streets, forced to fend for themselves.[6] As a result, these patients came into contact with the police and the courts more often. The situation is exacerbated by a lack of training and staffing in the court system, potentially accounting for persons with mental illness comprising an ever-larger fraction of the jail and prison population. Many of the symptoms of psychiatric illnesses are behaviors considered antisocial or criminal such as wandering behavior.[7] The result has been the false perception of a causal relationship between psychiatric illness and criminality."]]> 2021-02-09 01:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179970173 many people struggle to get access to mental health care dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179975858 "Many individuals do not receive the appropriate and timely treatment needed. Budget overruns and cuts in funding for public health and mental health in many cities further put people with mental illness in situations where they are involved in criminal activity.  Further complicating the picture is the lack of mental health treatment facilities. Despite greater awareness and effort to increase access to mental health treatment facilities, mental hospital beds per capita in the U.S. are lower than they have been since the 1850s."]]> 2021-02-09 01:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179975858 certain psychiatric conditions do increase a person’s risk of committing a crime. however, this is not the same as every person who commits a crime having a mental illness dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179978027 "Research suggests that patients with mental illness may be more prone to violence if they do not receive adequate treatment,[8] are actively experiencing delusions, or have long-standing paranoia.[9] Such patients are often under the influence of their psychiatric illness such as command hallucinations."  ]]> 2021-02-09 01:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179978027 source 4b: Jailing People with Mental Illness dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179991032 2021-02-09 01:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179991032 rather than getting the medical help needed, those in crisis usually end up in the hands of law enforcement dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179993636 "In a mental health crisis, people are more likely to encounter police than get medical help. As a result, 2 million people with mental illness are booked into jails each year. Nearly 15% of men and 30% of women booked into jails have a serious mental health condition."]]> 2021-02-09 01:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179993636 distinction between violent and nonviolent criminals dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179995973 "The vast majority of the individuals are not violent criminals—most people in jails are have not yet gone to trial, so they are not yet convicted of a crime. The rest are serving short sentences for minor crimes."]]> 2021-02-09 01:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179995973 jail often makes mental conditions worse, needs not taken into consideration dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179998408 "Once in jail, many individuals don't receive the treatment they need and end up getting worse, not better. They stay longer than their counterparts without mental illness. They are at risk of victimization and often their mental health conditions get worse."

"After leaving jail, many no longer have access to needed healthcare and benefits. A criminal record often makes it hard for individuals to get a job or housing. Many individuals, especially without access to mental health services and supports, wind up homeless, in emergency rooms and often re-arrested. At least 83% of jail inmates with a mental illness did not have access to needed treatment."]]> 2021-02-09 01:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1179998408 source 4c (COUNTER) capital punishment dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180010510 2021-02-09 01:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180010510 idea dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180015053 mb add something explaining the difference between intellectual disabilities and mental illness?]]> 2021-02-09 01:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180015053 Four national organizations—the American Psychiatric Association, theAmerican Psychological Association, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill,and the American Bar Association—have taken formal positions opposing theexecution of defendants with severe mental illness dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180105183 "Defendants should not be executed or sentenced to death if, at the
time of the offense, they had a severe mental disorder or disability
that significantly impaired their capacity (a) to appreciate the
nature, consequences or wrongfulness of their conduct, (b)
to exercise rational judgment in relation to conduct, or (c) to
conform their conduct to the requirements of the law. A disorder
manifested primarily by repeated criminal conduct or attributable
solely to the acute effects of voluntary use of alcohol or other drugs
does not, standing alone, constitute a mental disorder or disability
for purposes of this provision.60"]]> 2021-02-09 02:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180105183 Although the U.S. Supreme Court has constitutionally exempted juvenile offenders and offenders with intellectual disability from the ambit of the death penalty, it has not extended a similar exemption to offenders with severe mental illness, despite similarities in the limitations faced by all three groups of offenders dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180106604 "The ABA resolution’s accompanying report explains that this paragraph is meant to apply only to those with “severe” mental disorders and disabilities, such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorders, major depressive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The report specifically excludes from this exemption those whose conditions are manifested primarily by criminal behavior or voluntary substance use. The resolution also recommends exempting from execution some capital defendants who develop a severe mental disorder or disability after a death sentence has been imposed.61"]]> 2021-02-09 02:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180106604 many prosecutors, argue that the exemption is unnecessary because of existing protections afforded by competency reviews, the insanity defense, and the availability of mitigating evidence. dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180110903 HOWEVER "The standard for competency to stand trial is an extremely low one, and many defendants are cleared as competent for the purposes of trial despite undeniably suffering from severe mental illness. Moreover, the competency determination addresses the defendant’s mental state only at the time of trial or the time of execution and does not address the defendant’s mental state at the time of the offense."]]> 2021-02-09 03:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180110903 the ability of capital defense lawyers to ask sentencing jurors to consider a defendant’s mental illness as mitigating has often proved unavailing in light of the common misperceptions that lay jurors have about mental illness. dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180114814 "Common misperceptions that lay jurors have about mental illness. The Supreme Court has recognized as a constitutional matter that offenders with intellectual disability may face a special risk of wrongful conviction and
death sentencing because of their impaired ability to consult with counsel, their potentially inappropriate affect in court, and the risk that juries will consider them more dangerous because of their disability.64 Defendants with severe
mental illness face similar risks for similar reasons, and thus an exemption would increase the accuracy of the capital justice system. In addition, the Supreme Court has recognized that the execution of offenders with intellectual disability and juvenile offenders does not serve the retributive or deterrent purposes of capital punishment because of the reduced culpability of such offenders and
their lessened susceptibility to deterrence.65 Exactly the same considerations apply to offenders with severe mental illness, and thus an exemption would remove from the ambit of the death penalty those for whom the punishment would least serve any legitimate penological purposes."]]> 2021-02-09 03:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180114814 idea: find examples, integrate into other research! those are more powerful dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180136355 2021-02-09 03:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1180136355 source 4d: NDRN Executive Director Curt Decker’s Statement on the Death of Walter Wallace dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184471755 2021-02-09 20:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184471755 what happened dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184478448 In the evening of Monday, October 26, 2020, 27-year-old Walter Wallace, an African-American man and father, was shot and killed by police in the street in front of his home. Mr. Wallace had for years struggled with his mental health, a fact known to the police as they had been to the Wallace home three times on Monday.

Mr. Wallace’s family members, who witnessed the horrific shooting scene, have stated they had called 911 for an ambulance to get him help with a mental health crisis, not for police intervention. Rather than sending an emergency responder who could work to de-escalate the situation and safely transport Mr. Wallace for mental health treatment, the police responded, with tragic consequences.

]]> 2021-02-09 20:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184478448 could have been prevented dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184480998 The violent police response to Mr. Wallace’s crisis could have been avoided had the City of Philadelphia taken steps to reform its emergency response system. In several jurisdictions from Eugene, Oregon to Denver, Colorado to New York City, communities have developed, or are in the process of developing, non-police emergency response systems so as to avoid violent or coercive outcomes. Development and implementation of such a new emergency response system should be an immediate priority.]]> 2021-02-09 20:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184480998 source 4e: Mass Violence Legislation Scapegoats People with Mental Illness dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184507901 2021-02-09 20:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184507901 NDRN joined over 20 national organizations including disability rights, civil rights, education, and privacy groups to express concerns about the Restoring, Enhancing, Strengthening, and Promoting Our Nation’s Safety Efforts (RESPONSE) Act, legislation introduced by Senator Cornyn dhdwise https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184512110 “We believe it is urgent to address incidents of mass violence in our country,” said Curt Decker, Executive Director of the National Disability Rights Network. “However, those efforts should focus on real solutions rather than on mental health reforms that will have little impact on gun violence.” “Wrongly blaming people with psychiatric disabilities for gun violence sows prejudice and fear, undermining the opportunities for people with psychiatric disabilities to live, work and be full participants in their communities,” said Jennifer Mathis, Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.]]> 2021-02-09 20:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/SRVUSD/p9zq0j2k7czzbe6u/wish/1184512110