SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Racism, Sixties Scoop, Homicide
1 Feb 2018
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Mental illness: distress and disorder chapter 4. What is a sociological study of mental illness: definitions of mental illness/health, performance of mental illness as identity , social causes of mental illness, governance of mental illness. Asylums to prisons: warehousing mental illness: criminalizing and victimization, police tasering: sammy yatim, street violence: homeless shelters. Prisoner populations: 30% of male offender"s self-report chronic mental illness; 65% female offenders, deaths in custody = lack of access to medication, security not treatment, segregation as treatment. Stigma: social isolation lack of treatment: affordability and access subculture belonging: homeless victimization addiction, criminal involvement, violence criminalizati on: police and prison. Pharmaceutical industry as primary site of treatment and control: chemical dependency, adverse side effects, off label use: seroquel, hospitalization: total institutions, result: deinstitutionalization, aim: community-based assistance as more humane, outcomes: transcarceration, cycles of homeless shelters to imprisonment. Lat: living apart couples: what is the connection, skip generation families, created families.
