Why are there so many mentally ill offenders in jail?
What will be an ideal response?
• In the 1960s, new antipsychotropic drugs were created and prescribed for people with mental illness, allowing many mentally ill individuals to remain in the community rather than be placed in mental hospitals. As a result, states closed their hospitals, and the number of mentally ill patients went from a high of 559,000 in 1955 to 69,000 in 1995 . However, when community patients stopped taking their medication, the symptoms of the mental illness returned; many committed crimes and became clients of the criminal justice system.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
?Vice? laws in the late nineteenth century resulted in
A) a notable decrease in public disorder in American cities. B) significant payoffs to officers who protected illegal activities. C) a popular outcry against police enforcement of the laws. D) a population move out of the cities to less well-enforced areas.
Which of the following statements regarding intimate violence is TRUE?
a. the number of reported incidents of intimate violence for women is about five times greater than the number reported for men victims. b. nearly all victims of intimate violence are over age 35. c. in over half of the incidents of intimate violence, the offender has been drinking or using drugs. d. victimization rates do not vary by race/ethnicity.
Operation Ceasefire has two main elements: a direct law enforcement focus on illicit gun traffickers who supply youth with guns and:
a. an attempt to generate a strong deterrent to gang violence b. reduction in unlicensed street vendors c. reduction in truancy in city schools d. reintegration of hard core gang members into conventional society