There are many issues of great concern within the Marcel case. Marcel is homeless, unemployed, and has charges pending against him. Marcel has little family contact, but does have friends that he appears to be off and on again with. Marcel lacks a serious support system, which makes up one of the four major dimensions that support a life of recovery (“Recovery and Recovery Support,” 2015). Not only was that a part of a successful recovery, but also health, defined as abstaining from drugs or alcohol, and having a stable home life, (“Recovery and Recovery Support,” 2015). Marcel clearly is lacking in these aspects, and this is a great concern. Another concern is that Marcel has been using drugs and alcohol since the age of 14, and has been in
Within our society, there is a gleaming stigma against the drug addicted. We have been taught to believe that if someone uses drugs and commits a crime they should be locked away and shunned for their lifetime. Their past continues to haunt them, even if they have changed their old addictive ways. Everyone deserves a second chance at life, so why do we outcast someone who struggles with this horrible disease? Drug addiction and crime can destroy lives and rip apart families. Drug courts give individuals an opportunity to repair the wreckage of their past and mend what was once lost. Throughout this paper, I will demonstrate why drug courts are more beneficial to an addict than lengthy prison sentences.
The family is scared as to what might happen with the heart surgery. Justine’s mother is also afraid that her family might blame her for going ahead with the heart surgery if anything bad were to happen to Justine in the hospital during the surgery. The family is hoping that the healing or the praying ceremony scheduled at the temple might work and cure Justine, and hopefully surgery might not be needed after all.
Charles is a 21 year-old Caucasian single male currently residing with his mother and stepfather whom also is Charles’s uncle. Charles graduated high school and due to his illness he receives social security benefits. During a two year period Charles had nine visits to the emergency room resulting in admission to the psychiatric unit. On two admissions Charles left against medical advice, five admissions required a higher level of care resulting in admission to the state psychiatric hospital and two Charles was transferred to the adult crisis unit. Charles also has a misdemeanor history mainly public nuisance due to substance abuse mainly marijuana and cocaine. Charles was evicted after a psychotic episode and destroying his apartment.
In the event that a prisoner (particularly a sex offender) does complete rehabilitation, he carries with him a stigma upon reentering society. People often fear living near a prior drug addict or convicted murderer and the sensational media hype surrounding released felons can ruin a newly released convict’s life before it beings. What with resident notifications, media scare tactics and general concern for safety, a sex offender’s ability to readapt into society is severely hindered (554). This warrants life-skills rehabilitation applied to him useless, as he will be unable to even attempt to make the right decision regarding further crime opportunities.
Once these individuals in rehab serve there sentence the majority of them, won’t look straight to the next opportunity to get high, but the next opportunity for a better future after being encouraged in rehab to accomplish something in life, compared to someone’s attitude coming out of prison. One story involved a man named Richard with his wife Marcia. She was an addict who was often jailed for it, but Anthony believed like many others that “addiction can be overcome with proper help. He believed that the solution was to get her into a mental hospital [and] get her whatever she needs – Xanax, morphine, to get her chemical imbalance right. Show her some respect. (114)” Give her some working skills, so once she gets out she is capable of being successful but instead she kept getting “kicked down the steps” by the criminal justice system. The jailing and torture of addicts is routine to people serving cases for drug related offenses, who are often not built to endure prison, let alone jail. “The Justice Department estimates that 216,000 people are raped in these prisons every year. (This is the number of rapes, not the number of rapes – that is much higher.) (109)” This is ultimately shows the simple fact that many people are not built to endure
A 13-year-old girl from Alberta was charged guilty for murdering her parents and her younger brother on April 22,06. The girl was sentenced six years in jail, followed up by four years supervision in the community. During the trial the girl spoke up and said that her 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke (charged with three counts of first degree murder), broke into her home and attacked and killed her mother and father. The girl also testified that Jeremy ordered her to stab her brother, which she did once, then Jeremy slit her brother's throat. The girl spoke up and confirmed that she and her boyfriend did talk about killing her parents before, but as a joke. The crown anticipated that she was an equal participant in the killings of her family, because of the disapproval her parents had with her relationship with
The assessment tool that I plan to use in this intervention is the biopsychosocial spiritual assessment tool. This assessment tool will give me a good impression of what Marcel is dealing with. This assessment tool will give me information such as some of Marcel’s background information, such as age, mender, and ethnicity. This assessment tool will also give me some insight on Marcel’s childhood. Some of the things he may have experienced in that time in his life that has caused a negative effect on his life and if some of those experiences are connected to the problem that he is having. This assessment tool will also address some of Marcel’s family background. This information is important because it may show some of the
He struggles with holding steady employment, housing, and keeping contact with his probation officer. After reading the summary of the Affidavit of Probable Cause, it appears that Benjamin may struggle with authority figures and therefore has a lack of respect. This may be from a past history with police officers, which in his mind, were not working to protect himself or someone he knew. Benjamin may have a history of physical or mental abuse which is why it has been decided that he must seek and attend mental health and anger management counseling to help him cope with incidences in his past. It is also evident that he has been involved with alcohol and or drugs due to the condition of screenings. His use of these substances may also stem from trauma experienced during
Right now in the United States there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the country’s prisons and jails. Out of this population about one-quarter of these inmates have been convicted of a drug offense. With drug offense arrests increasing nationwide and the prison population increasing there is an alternative to incarceration has been used over the past two decades in many cities across the country. This alternative is in the form of local drug courts that are now found in most major cities in the United States. A drug court is a specialized court in which the judge, prosecutor, public defender or private attorney, probation officers, and treatment counselors work together to help chemically dependent offenders obtain needed treatment and rehabilitation in an attempt to break the cycle of addiction and further criminal offenses. Some argue that treatment rather than incarceration is a waste of time and valuable resources that could be used elsewhere. Research however has shown that court ordered treatment is the best option for drug offenders. Treatments through drug court has proven to be less expensive than incarceration and has also been shown to reduce crime and provide a lower relapse and re-arrest rate for offenders that are placed in drug courts as opposed to those that are not.
My research concluded that incarceration is not the solution that we need in order to help criminal offenders gain back entry into their communities. The solution is to lay out strategies that focus on rehabilitation and re-engagement in prosocial activities. Give
Substance abuse is a grim issue that affects the Canadian inmate population; it can be defined as overindulgence in or dependence on an addictive substance, especially alcohol or drugs. Within Canada, 80% of offenders entering the federal prison system are identified as having a substance abuse problem; this goes beyond mere indication of tougher drug legislation, it uncovers further discrepancy. Due to the immense majority of offenders affected by this complex mental illness, in addition to varied levels of individual cognitive ability. Consequently conventional abstinence-based treatment methods may not benefit all offenders. Untreated, this dynamic risk factor precursor’s future offending, as a study reveals dependency on illegal drugs is the single most serious risk for repeated offending. It has been established substance control is a far more feasible short term goal than outright eradication. With this ideology, the premise of one’s analysis will be on substance abuse control methodologies, gauging effectiveness and overall success in achieving its purpose.
Addiction often time leads to an individual’s health declining, their financial security declines. Drug addicts have a hard time keeping a job, which leads to having trouble with the law, and sometimes even leads to being homeless. Drug addiction is a sickness, if it is not being taken serious, and without the right kind of treatment addicts will just find their way back to using, even after they have served their time in prison. The Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy recognizes that addiction is a disease, and that the criminal justice system can play a vital role in reducing the costs and consequences of crimes committed by drug-involved offenders. If drug addicts received proper treatment and proper help needed to overcome the addiction, which will give those individuals a new opportunity to live a clean healthy life, and will contribute to society in a positive
Unfortunately, I struggled with this specific capacity. BP explained to me that since his problem with alcohol, his family had distanced themselves from him. Coming from a close-knit family, I found it difficult to accept that BP had not tried harder to reach out to his family in time of need. However, I did not take into consideration that his values differed from mine or that his family was any different than from what I had known them to be. In hindsight, I would have first assessed how his individual relationships with his family have evolved over the years and how he feels he should be treated in his current situation. This could also be recognized as a failure in re-imaging (Doane & Varcoe, 2005). Although, I have a basic understanding of BP’s current state of health and family life, I failed to recognize the differences that set him apart from the rest of his family or how his family may be contributing to the way in which he chooses to live his
..., common are divorces and, sometimes, loss of parental rights. Most victimized here are children, who do not, yet, have much understanding of similar situations, and that, effects in impaired ability to trust people and feel safe, later on in their life. What else, next to the family situation, collapses in a long-term alcohol abuser’s life? Alcoholics are antisocial; they do not want to let anyone thru a wall they built around themselves. With time, they lose friends. Important matter is that alcohol dependents lack feelings of responsibility, so they become less effective at work. Their credibility drops and they are no longer valued workers – they lose their jobs.
“Passion” is defined as a “strong and barely controllable emotion”. Based on this definition, singer and songwriter Marcel Ledoux naturally embodies what it means to have a remarkable “passion” for music. The Hollywood born and Miami Gardens bred vocalist was enticed by the sounds and 80’s R&B and the vibrations of Doo Wop at an early age. It wasn’t until his mother discovered his vocal chords were something extraordinary. Shorty after enrolling in to a performing arts school, his mother began enlisting Marcel in local talent shows to expose his talent to the masses.