Mental illness and Crime Reading Passage
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Mental illness
Mental illness and Crime Reading Passage Now read the passage below. You can look up the meanings of the words and phrases in bold in the Vocabulary Study section that follows. The relationship between psychiatric illness and criminality has been the topic of intense debate and scrutiny in the recent past in light of multiple mass shootings in the United States. While the renewed focus and media attention on the importance of mental health in the aftermath of such tragedies is a positive development, the relationship between mental illness and criminality is too often conflated. The popular belief is that people with mental illness are more prone to commit acts of violence and aggression. 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. 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. This activity reviews psychiatric illness and criminality and the role of the interprofessional team in caring for afflicted patients.An essential element that plays into the false equivocation of psychiatric illness and criminality is the incorrect labeling of all criminals as persons with mental illness. Society at large views behavior and conduct problems as a symptom of a psychological disorder, which has led to the false public perception that equates criminality with psychiatric illness. The high levels of reported mental illness in jail and prison populations are 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. Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is one such diagnosis that is widely and arbitrarily applied to many in the prison populations. As a result, there is a debate as to whether ASPD is even a psychiatric illness or just a societal moral judgment. The label is increasingly used to paint criminals as victims of psychiatric illness. Thus, it is imperative for clinicians to ensure that diagnoses are applied only when characteristic traits are extant, to not let criminals use the cover of psychiatric diagnoses to evade criminal punishment. True or False 1. It isn’t believed that people with mental illness are more prone to commit acts of violence and aggression. 2. ASDP is stands for Antisocial personality disorder 3. The high levels of reported mental illness in jail and prison populations are primarily due to false labeling of criminals as having a psychiatric illness. 4. People with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator. 5. (ASPD) is one such diagnosis that rare and arbitrarily applied to many in the prison populations. 𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 1mentally ill suffering from severe mental illness Many people believe that mentally ill people are at much greater risk for violence, for example, than non-mentally ill people, when in fact the substantial majority -probably 90-99% of people with mental illness-are not at heightened risk for violence. 𝟮.correlation a reciprocal connection between two or more things And that will often result in a phenomenon that psychologists call "illusory correlation.' 𝟯.psychiatric hospital a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person Someone comes in with the belief that full moons are related to all kinds of strange behaviors, like homicides and suicides and psychiatric hospital admissions and dog bites and you name it. 𝟰.illusory having the nature of something unreal or deceptive And that will often result in a phenomenon that psychologists call " illusory correlation." 𝟱.mental energy an actuating force or factor We're all cognitive misers; we don't expend any more mental energy, most of the time, than we need to. 𝟲.adaptive having a capacity for change And again, that's adaptive; that makes perfect sense, but as a result of that sometimes we may be a little bit lazy. 𝟳.mentally in your mind Many people believe that mentally ill people are at much greater risk for violence, for example, than non-mentally ill people, when in fact the substantial majority -probably 90-99% of people with mental illness-are not at heightened risk for violence. 𝟴.conversely with the terms of the relation reversed They either don't attend to or forget about the cases where someone mentally ill did not commit a violent crime, or conversely cases where someone commits a violent crime and is not mentally ill. 𝟵.minimize make small or insignificant The concept of confirmation bias is the idea that when we have an idea-it doesn't have to be a formal hypothesis-but when we have an idea we tend to seek out evidence for it, and we often tend to ignore or distort or minimize evidence that does not support it. 𝟭𝟬.prone having a tendency And that's something we all do, something we're all prone to. 𝟭𝟭.psychiatric relating to the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders Someone comes in with the belief that full moons are related to all kinds of strange behaviors, like homicides and suicides and psychiatric hospital admissions and dog bites and you name it. 𝟭𝟮.homicide the killing of a human being by another human being Someone comes in with the belief that full moons are related to all kinds of strange behaviors, like homicides and suicides and psychiatric hospital admissions and dog bites and you name it. 𝟭𝟯.concept an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances For listeners who aren't familiar with this concept, I think that's a really important one to emphasize. 𝟭𝟰.attend to get down to; pay attention to; take seriously And then one may tend to forget evidence or at least not attend to evidence that doesn't support that idea. 𝟭𝟱.psychologist a specialist in the science of mental life And that will often result in a phenomenon that psychologists call "illusory correlation.' 𝟭𝟲.expend use up or consume fully We're all cognitive misers; we don't expend any more mental energy, most of the time, than we need to. 𝟭𝟳.derive come from But in fact there are many more myths that also probably derive in part from illusory correlation. 𝟭𝟴.ignore refuse to acknowledge The concept of confirmation bias is the idea that when we have an idea-it doesn't have to be a formal hypothesis-but when we have an idea we tend to seek out evidence for it, and we often tend to ignore or distort or minimize evidence that does not support it. 𝟭𝟵.suicidethe act of killing yourself Someone comes in with the belief that full moons are related to all kinds of strange behaviors, like homicides and suicides and psychiatric hospital admissions and dog bites and you name it. 𝟮𝟬.from time to time now and then or here and there We all have it from time to time. 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