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CRM - Winter 2023
Introduction to Criminology (CRM1300)
University of Ottawa
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- Life after total institution
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a. Failed to acquire or lost some of the habits that are necessary to participate in society
- Stigmatisation
a. Disadvantaged as they now hold a spoiled identity which in turn hampers their social interaction with other people
- Challenge to institutions
- Prevent people from participating from outside society
a. Isnt hope of people leaving and those who can leave have difficulties being resocialized for the real world
- Disability rights movement
a. Push amongst people to recognise disability as something that marginalises people
- Pharmacological advances
a. We see a advancement of medicine to help those intotal institutions> anti psychotics b. Personalised medication regimens for them to follow to
- Process of deinstitutionalization
- Goals
a. Replace long stay mental institutions with community based services b. Reduce size of institutionalised populations into community, shortened stay length, having people as out patients c. Effort to change policies that lead was believed to instil helplessness and dependency in these institutionalisation> was done to allow more self advocacy of patients to say where their treatment should go
- Complications
a. Community wasn't able to support the influx of mentally ill into community b. through proper strategy
- Community based mental healthcare
a. Long term holding facility system kinda just shifted into urban areas b. Nimbyism keeps the development of aid challenged by others c. Those released from mental facilities end up in prisons
- Criminalisation of mental illness
- Reasons
a. People don’t fully understand what they're doing is illegal] b. Mental health status may cause lack of in sight into their own illness c. People may be self medicating > sometimes with stuff that's illegal, which forces them into proximity with police d. People may lack info about their right sand options through the CJS e. Mentally ill lack social support f. Hospital rules/red tape/ legislative change makes it hard to hold onto the mentally ill in the healthcare system
- Poverty and mental illness
Ontario works doesn't cover a proper cost of living which help explains the ins=intersection between
- Intersection of mental illness and homelessness
- Mental illness and homlessness don't equal crime
a. Hard to acquire and keep housing as a marginalised individual b. Homeless people seek food and shelter from facilities c. Mental illness is a serious or persistent disruptive mental or emotional disorder
- Mental illness , homelessness, and criminalisation
- Survival behaviours
a. Behaviours that are exacerbated to support you in life b. Conflict in shelter or being threatened by people or your selling illegal drugs to support yourself
- Appearance of danger
a. Dangerous people come under surveillance b. Those who fit into the traditional view of what a criminal may looks like
- Substance use
a. People self medicating on the streets puts people in societies crosshairs
- Civility laws
a. Civility laws are used to target these -behaviours
CRM - Winter 2023
Course: Introduction to Criminology (CRM1300)
University: University of Ottawa
