Interesting Statistics Regarding Deinstitutionalization Of Mentally Ill And Crime

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Interesting Statistics Regarding Deinstitutionalization Of Mentally Ill And Crime

 

 

December 16, 2012

 

By Lonely Conservative

 

 

Ann Althouse pointed out an interesting statistic regarding the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and crime.

 

Deinstitutionalization played a substantial role in the dramatic increase in violent crime rates in America in the 1970s and 1980s. People who might have been hospitalized in 1950 or 1960 when they first exhibited evidence of serious mental illness today remain at large until they commit a serious felony. The criminal justice system then usually sends these mentally ill offenders to prison, not a mental hospital.

 

The result is a system that is bad for the mentally ill: prisons, in spite of their best efforts, are still primarily institutions of punishment, and are inferior places to treat the mentally ill. It is a bad system for felons without mental illness problems, who are sharing facilities with the mentally ill, and are understandably afraid of their unpredictability. It is a bad system for the victims of those mentally ill felons, because.

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