scholarly journals Female Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. McLeod ◽  
Zackery D.O. Dunnells ◽  
Burcu Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Sexual Offenders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Trauma

In the United States criminal justice system, female sexual offenders are among the most unrepresented groups of individuals, and they have evaded detection and/or prosecution for many reasons. This chapter explores the characteristics and patterns of female sexual offenders based on the collection of available literature. We will discuss how personal trauma histories, mental health, substance abuse, and motivations of female sexual offenders differ from their male counterparts. Additionally, we cover how social perception presents female sexual offenders in a light that adversely impacts their interactions with the social systems and explore empirically validated myths, risks, and interventions for this population.

The Prosperity Gospel of Coronavirus Response

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Paul A. Djupe ◽  
Ryan P. Burge
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virus Research ◽  
State Responses

Abstract The sweep of the coronavirus pandemic across the world and the United States offers an almost unparalleled opportunity to study how social systems cope with the threat and opportunities for collective action. In this paper, we draw on survey data collected as the United States flailed in response and before a general consensus among executive officeholders developed in the following weeks. In particular, we assess how holding prosperity gospel views strongly shaped perceptions of the virus and reactions to state responses to the virus. Research on the prosperity gospel is slowly expanding and this paper helps to highlight some missing dimensions. At a time when concerted action for the social good could be uniting the country, prosperity gospel beliefs systematically undermine that possibility by augmenting threat, raising outgroup barriers, and decreasing social trust.

Mental Health Courts

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-112
Author(s):  
David DeMatteo ◽  
Kirk Heilbrun ◽  
Alice Thornewill ◽  
Shelby Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Court ◽  
Drug Courts ◽  
Mental Health Courts ◽  
Current State

This chapter focuses on mental health courts, a problem-solving court that developed in the wake of drug courts to address the needs of offenders with mental health diagnoses or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse concerns. In this chapter, the authors first review the overrepresentation of individuals with mental illness in the criminal justice system. They then describe the history and current state of mental health courts in the United States. The chapter then provides a detailed summary of the research on mental health courts. Although there is considerably less research on mental health courts than on drug courts, the available research provides reason to be cautiously optimistic. Within this discussion, the authors also note the limitations in mental health court research. Finally, the authors conclude the chapter with a discussion of innovative mental health court practices and the future of mental health courts.

Joint markets

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Kjellberg ◽  
David Olson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulated Markets ◽  
Market Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Delineation

Combining previous work on market formation and regulation with a case study of the emerging legal cannabis markets in the United States, we develop the argument that interrelations to other markets contribute significantly to constitute the social systems of regulated markets. Specifically, market interrelations enacted during legitimation and regulation influence who becomes involved in the market formation process and direct attention to specific issues in that process. After successfully (re)regulating a market, new interrelations are enacted via practices borrowed from historic, parallel and auxiliary markets, and via material influences based on complementarity and substitutability. While these multiple interrelations to other markets complicate market delineation, they are also a historical precondition for it.

Transforming Mental Health and Substance Abuse Data Systems in the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1257-1263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna M. Coffey ◽  
Jeffrey A. Buck ◽  
Cheryl A. Kassed ◽  
Joan Dilonardo ◽  
Carol Forhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Systems

Latinx Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Alison Cerezo ◽  
Juan Camarena ◽  
Amaranta Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Mental Health ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Sexual and gender diverse (SGD) Latinxs are a vibrant, heterogenous community that can trace their heritage to various countries in Latin America. This chapter describes how socio-historical trends in the United States and Latin America have shaped the social and health conditions of SGD Latinxs, including the impact of colonialism and recent state-sanctioned discriminatory violence. An intersectionality framework is used in this chapter to consider how race and ethnicity, immigration, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity function interdependently to impact the lives of SGD Latinxs in the United States and around the world. The authors also discuss trends in SGD Latinx research in the United States and Latin America, with a focus on mental health and substance abuse.

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