Monday, March 12, 2018

Medicalization of Deviance

The Medicalization of Deviance is having a medical reason to perform deviant acts. I do understand that a lot of people do things because they have severe mental illnesses, but I also think people possibly can plead mentally insane when they may not be. It goes both ways, I think it is an interesting topic. Looking at crimes done by people who plead insanity would be interesting. I saw in the news when that man shot up that movie theater, then pleading insanity, I read about everyone knowing he was very sick and antisocial, but he was apparently rational. That is just one side/story to it though.

An inside look on James Holmes broken mind in a CNN video is linked here







4 comments:

  1. I really like this topic. It was a creative point

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  2. I agree that some people abuse mental illness just to get out of going to jail. I really like how you did some research about when people have abused mental illness and insanity instead of realizing their crime.

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  3. I also believe that people can sometimes hide behind mental illness as a reason for why they act a certain way

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  4. I like the in depth analysis of the example I used in class.

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