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Virginia\u27s Criminal Justice System\u27s Current Treatment for People with Mental Illnesses: Some Recommendations Based on What Has Worked (and What Has Not)
Get PDFIn this research we critically review information on Virginia’s criminal justice system’s response to people with mental illness. We first investigate issues that persons with mental illnesses experience as they navigate three stages of Virginia’s criminal justice system. The stages are: first, when people with mental illness are apprehended by the police, second, when they must stand trial, and third, when they are incarcerated. At the apprehension stage, the main issues we identify are that most officers do not have proper crisis intervention training, and that there are not sufficient options for diversion from jail for people with mental illnesses. When defendants with mental illness face trial, we find existing opposing perspectives as to how to approach cases and stringent requirements in mental health dockets to be the main issues at this stage. Finally, upon incarceration, we note long wait times for mental health assessments and state hospital beds, and the delay or mismanagement of medications to be the main issues at this stage. Upon seeing how people with mental illnesses are incorrectly treated in jails and prisons currently, we began to look for alternatives to incarceration. At the apprehension stage, it would be beneficial for communities to create crisis intervention teams and conduct in-depth and continuous crisis intervention training for emergency responders. When the defendants with mental illnesses are in court, we recommend redirecting them away from prison using mental health dockets or assisted outpatient therapy. Ultimately, through our research, we found that incarcerating people with mental illnesses comes at too large a cost for the people themselves, taxpayers, and the criminal justice system. Therefore, alternatives should be created and utilized
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Get PDFInformation relating to the publisher, publication frequency, editorial staff, purchase options, submission requirements, and contact information for the American Communal Societies Quarterly
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Get PDFBack cover illustration: J. C. Haring (active Masillon, Ohio), Michael J. Miller late in life, reading. Cabinet card, 1880s. Courtesy Ohio History Connection, number 3236
The Hybrid “Half-Life” of a Bird-Man and a Spider-God Hybridity of Bodies, Minds, and Cultures in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories
No full text“A great blessing to mankind”: The Medicated Vapour Bath at the Shaker Community of New Lebanon
Get PDFShaker diaries and journals show that over the years brethren and sisters experimented with numerous treatment forms such as humoural medicine, Thomsonianism, hydrotherapy, Grahamism, medical electricity, sea air cure, and taking the waters at various medicinal springs. Yet despite the informal and often inconsistent use of these therapies, one invention appears to have inspired an official commitment between the Society and the “world” (non- Shakers): the “medicated vapour bath.”
This commitment was recorded in an 1826 letter between Union Village (O.) and South Union (Ky.). Like many Shaker Ministry communications, it opened with a report from New Lebanon that detailed the general health of its members and introduced the recent “gift” of washing feet. However, following this missive came a note from Eliab Harlow and Garret K. Lawrence, physicians at the lead society. They stated that they had “been in the possession of a Medicated Vapour Bath, obtained of a man by the name of Charles Whitlow from England.” Moreover, in union with the Ministry and elders at New Lebanon, these two brothers had procured the patent rights for this invention on behalf of all the Shaker communities in the United States.
This announcement begs several questions: what exactly was the medicated vapour bath and why did this system so impress Harlow and Lawrence? For which conditions was it used and how was it employed? Equally as interesting, who was Charles Whitlaw and what was his relationship to the Shakers? In this paper, I will aim to answer these intriguing questions. Furthermore, I will illustrate that although the Shakers’ use of this healthcare device was intimately tied to nineteenth century therapeutics, it was also strongly grounded in a medical understanding that had spanned the previous two millennia
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Get PDFBack cover illustration: Milking time: writer Jesse Kornbluth and farmer Tony Mathews, Montague, 1969. Photo: Tom Fels. Collection of the author
Elwin E. Damkohler’s Account of the Koreshan Unity
Get PDFLyn Millner’s excellent history of the Koreshan Unity, The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet, made use of many heretofore inaccessible primary sources about the Koreshans. One of these was Elwin E. Damkohler’s scarce pamphlet Estero, Fla., 1882: Memoirs of the First Settler (Fort Myers Beach, Florida: Island Press, 1967). As Millner recounts, Elwin and his father Gustave were convinced by Teed and the Koreshans to legally sign the title to their lands over to the community. This reprint is Elwin’s bitter memories of the Koreshans, excerpted here from his extremely rare pamphlet
