Yes. Prisons and policing are criminogenic *because* they produce/exacerbate stress.
Stress cannibalizes cognition and negatively impacts existing MH issues, increasing the likelihood of engaging in criminalized behaviors.
Stress cannibalizes cognition and negatively impacts existing MH issues, increasing the likelihood of engaging in criminalized behaviors.
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Eric Reinhart
There is far too much talk about how jails and prisons function as today's asylums and far too little about how they cause the very "mental illnesses" to which they are supposedly a response. Incarceration may be the single biggest causes of "mental illness" in America.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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This is why adopting anti-surveillance practices as a cultural norm and solidifying them through policy secures positive health outcomes.