The Criminalization of the Mentally Ill

Analysis of the problem: In the United States the imprisonment rate in the world is the highest, more than 60% of prison inmates report mental health problems, of which 316,000 are suffering from mental illness seriously (Raphael & Stoll, 2013 ). Corrective facilities in the United States are the main mental health organizations of today (Adams & Ferrandino, 2008). This imprisonment of American psychiatric patients raises the rate of imprisonment, making it medically untreated or psychologically unstable in prison and after being released.

It mainly focuses on psychosis and congenital crime. In 384 psychological histories of suicide bomb attackers studied by Pape (2005), psychosis claims have been strongly attacked, cases of depression, psychosis or psychosis like attempted suicide in the past are recorded Absent. In addition, there is no evidence of serious criminal activity, there is no report that the suicide attacker lives in a way that insults gays, foreigners, or traditional society. Only one possible

Psychiatric disorders may affect criminal behavior, but it is important to distinguish people with mental illness from violent acts or criminal acts. It is often thought that a person must suffer from psychosis in order to commit a particularly violent crime. This shame is discussed in detail, and people with mental health problems are likely to become victims of violent crime, but I would like to discuss mental illness and crime in different ways think. In reality, it means that a person who committed a crime at times has a psychosis that may be involved in his criminal activity. However, omitting the explanation of why psychosis causes criminal activity marks all criminals as "crazy" and prevents psychiatric patients from losing the necessary mental health care.

The problem of mental health has spread throughout the criminal justice system. Psychiatric patients may be exempted from criminal responsibility in part or in whole, depending on how they appear at the time of crime. She may not be able to negotiate with lawyers or understand the lawsuit against him and her spiritual illness may impede the ability to make spontaneous and information based decisions based on information about her defense unknown. Naturally, the Penal Code establishes legal standards for assessing the ability of criminal defendants, and these standards are often used in criminal proceedings. However, the criminal court does not use any ability criteria, such as the ability to endure a trial, the ability to abandon a right, the ability to enforce it.