For years research has been collected and poured over, magnifying the fact that many juvenile offenders have mental illnesses that prevent them from becoming proper functioning members of society. Without proper treatment many of the individuals that are detained will not be rehabilitated and will most likely be reincarcerated multiple times throughout their lives. Since the 1980’s there has been an incredibly sharp increase (about 22% according to an article done by Children’s Services at Northeastern University) in the number of juveniles that were incarcerated. That led to over 2.8 million incarcerations that same studied showed that there was also an overlap of juvenile offenders within the mental health care facilities, and those that
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People who have this disorder will do literally anything to get what they want out of life, easily resorting to stealing money from friends and family. It’s defining characteristic of this disorder is the fact that there is a complete lack of empathy in that person. They have zero remorse for what they do and don’t feel that what they did was wrong. In adult populations over 15-25 percent of the populations are characterized as having some form of this disorder. The amount in the juvenile population is unknown mainly because of how hard this disorder is to diagnose. It’s mainly confused with the term psychopath which is not actually DSM recognized. Therefore many people who are believed to be so-called “psychopaths” in juvenile prison may actually be suffering from …show more content…
Kiehl a cognitive neuroscientist stated in the New Yorker recently that “’Think about it,’ he told me. ‘Crime is a trillion-dollar-a-year problem. The average psychopath will be convicted of four violent crimes by the age of forty. And yet hardly anyone is funding research into the science. Schizophrenia, which causes much less crime, has a hundred times more research money devoted to it.’ I asked why, and Kiehl said, ‘Because schizophrenics are seen as victims, and psychopaths are seen as predators. The former we feel empathy for, the latter we lock up.’” ( Seabrook, 2008) So with crime being caused mainly by people with APD why are the courts not helping those who actually need the mental health counseling? Mainly it’s because of how the illness has come about. People who come from low-income families are much more likely to develop APD, but it’s also neurological as well caused by a defect in the paralimbic system of the brain. This is what controls our sense of fear, fight/flight, our reward system, and how our behavior towards others. The inhibition of these systems cause an intense need for stimulation and results in many people risking their lives, just to reach that sense of
People who have this disorder will do literally anything to get what they want out of life, easily resorting to stealing money from friends and family. It’s defining characteristic of this disorder is the fact that there is a complete lack of empathy in that person. They have zero remorse for what they do and don’t feel that what they did was wrong. In adult populations over 15-25 percent of the populations are characterized as having some form of this disorder. The amount in the juvenile population is unknown mainly because of how hard this disorder is to diagnose. It’s mainly confused with the term psychopath which is not actually DSM recognized. Therefore many people who are believed to be so-called “psychopaths” in juvenile prison may actually be suffering from …show more content…
Kiehl a cognitive neuroscientist stated in the New Yorker recently that “’Think about it,’ he told me. ‘Crime is a trillion-dollar-a-year problem. The average psychopath will be convicted of four violent crimes by the age of forty. And yet hardly anyone is funding research into the science. Schizophrenia, which causes much less crime, has a hundred times more research money devoted to it.’ I asked why, and Kiehl said, ‘Because schizophrenics are seen as victims, and psychopaths are seen as predators. The former we feel empathy for, the latter we lock up.’” ( Seabrook, 2008) So with crime being caused mainly by people with APD why are the courts not helping those who actually need the mental health counseling? Mainly it’s because of how the illness has come about. People who come from low-income families are much more likely to develop APD, but it’s also neurological as well caused by a defect in the paralimbic system of the brain. This is what controls our sense of fear, fight/flight, our reward system, and how our behavior towards others. The inhibition of these systems cause an intense need for stimulation and results in many people risking their lives, just to reach that sense of