week 7 therapeutic concerns

Question 1

explain medicalzing deviance

Answer 1

The introduction of the “Psy‐ences”:
 Psychiatry
 Psychology
- Expertocracy (Habermas)
 Diagnosable deviance
 Behavioural Control Tactics
- psychotheraphy
-plastic surgery
-aversion theraphy (shock treatment)
- druge therapy (insulin injections/lsd)

Question 2

explain the black widow

Answer 2

 Behaviour seen as consistent with
mental illness
 Stranglehold of the Legal System
 Once they have you...
 “Doubly Deviant”

Question 3

explain transitions in treatment

Answer 3

shift in penal philosophy
from
1. medical model - emphasis on mental illness and psychological disorder
to
2. opportunity mdel - opportunities to reform provided by prison authorities
- onus on the prisoner to take advantage

Question 4

what is the ‘dangerous offender’

Answer 4

Marlene Moore – indeterminate sentence
• Constant Supervison
 Lisa Neve – overturned decision
 Renee Acoby ‐ Segregation

Question 5

what is a total institution

Answer 5

goffman
every facet of life subject to regulation
panopticon

Question 6

explain social selction

Answer 6

 Micro approach:
 In line with state objectives
 Emphasis on individual pathology (essentialism)
 Status becomes equated with personality

Question 7

explain social causation

Answer 7

Macro approach:
 Mental health perspective
 Primacy to social forces
 Social forces conducive to mental illness
 Prison environment greatest cause of
distress

Question 8

Explain dysfunctional coping strategies

Answer 8

Cutting
 Suicide
 Eating Disorders
 Substance Abuses

Question 9

how does self injurious behaviour help coping

Answer 9

look at chart

Question 10

who’s ashley smith

Answer 10

 19 y/o woman held in isolation
 Chronic involvement with minor
crime
 Committed suicide in the presence of
4 officers
 Complete failure on behalf of system