Why Do We Punish the Mentally Ill?
| Autor: | Andrew Skotnicki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration ISBN: 9781529222241 Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration ISBN: 9781529222210 |
| DOI: | 10.51952/9781529222241.ch003 |
| Popis: | The third chapter will analyze why those considered to be mentally ill are so often punished. Socioeconomic, psychological, and theological factors will be considered. As to the first, the neoliberal fusion of an unfettered free market paired with an invasive scrutiny of individual conduct on the part of the law enforcement and security industries has played a substantial role in the massive rise in penal commitments in countries such as the United States and England over the last half century. The psychological section will work mainly with the ideas of Kierkegaard on the pervasive depression that all experience due to the human dichotomy between an unlimited imagination and a progressively limited physicality. Kierkegaard argues that it is those who honestly face this psychological morass who often devolve into fantasy and, at least seeming, fabrication while the “sane” majority tend to lose themselves in denial and identification with the prevailing cultural and moral status quo. Finally, it will discuss the ineffability of religious experience and the limited moral language that over determines a persistent diagnosis of psychosis and a-sociability for persons who have “out of body” experiences, hear voices, or have corporeal visions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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