Disability, Mental Health & Criminal Justice System

Disability, Mental
Health & Criminal
Justice System

Blog 1
Evaluate a conceptual understanding of Vulnerability in relation to disability and
mental illness or health in criminal justice system
According to the blog published in BMC, 2019, vulnerability defines as an inability to
resist the impact the hostile environment. It states the quality of being exposed to the
possibility of being harmed and attacked wither physically and emotionally. Vulnerability
in order to mental health, disability and health criminal justice system. Mental health
shows the condition of a person regards to their emotional and psychological well being.
In mental health there are various diseases that are serious for the human brain and its
functions. Vulnerability for mental health is very harmful and it defines basic
susceptibility to mental illness or health disorders. Vulnerability has been characterized
in an unexpected way, contingent on the field and writing being examined. Individuals
with mental inabilities who have annoyed end up kept in medical clinics, penitentiaries,
restorative systems inside detainment facilities, and, most remarkably, inside the
remand populace. This determined by genetic make-up or early life experience (Brown,
2018). It is impacted by utilizing medications or like-hood of using drugs and alcohol. In
the current scenario, stress refers to challenges faced in present lives. Authorization
and Public Health (LEPH) to distinguish those needing these administrations. Viable
vulnerability appraisal is accordingly expected to forestall accidental unsafe wellbeing
and criminal equity results and deal with the adverse consequence of such in situations
where avoidance is unimaginable. This checking survey expected to recognize how
vulnerability is characterized. There are two major areas one is stress and the second
one is biological vulnerability, both are influenced by various other factors that are
people have some control over and factors are drug and alcohol use, coping skills,
meaningful, social support and medication use. These all affect mental health as well as
physical health in a negative manner. There is some way to reduce the negative impact
on vulnerability is via social support which comes from having close or meaningful
relations with others. Underuse of the arrangements inside the MHA 1983, which grant
the redirection of supposed disarranged wrongdoers into medical clinic instead of
custodial remand, incompletely represents this upgraded predominance. Be that as it
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may, the intelligent pressure of being accused of an offense in the event that one is as
of now defenseless ought not be belittled.
Reason for stress and vulnerability: It has been determined that there are number
of reasons for stress and vulnerability. This vulnerability determined in life by a blend of
elements, including hereditary qualities, pre-birth sustenance and stress, birth
entanglements, and early encounters in youth The main reason of arsing of tress and
vulnerability is because of the basic susceptibility that takes place because of mental
health disorders. It is determined by the early life experiences. It is many times also
affected by the use of medications and the continuous use of drugs and alcohol.
“Stress” is also the reason for various challenges that are arsing in life of individual. The
major reason for vulnerability in individuals is arising because of the biological nature of
people and the way the people are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The main reason for
this the person vulnerability for a specific disorder that may develop earlier and can
become severe with time.
Risk for a people with disabilities, person with disabilities may be specifically vulnerable
to crimes are involving interpersonal aggression such as sexual and physical assault.
As a population regardless of gender or age, they are often least able to acknowledge
risk or danger, least able to keep away themselves and least able to acquire
significance in criminal justice system. There are different causes behind risk in mental
health such as environmental exposures before the birth, in this exposure to the
environmental agent, inflammatory situations, alcohol, toxins and drugs while in the
womb can be to the mental disorder. In inherited traits, mental disorder is most
common among people or society whose blood relatives also have illness in mental.
Definite genes may raise the risk of developing as disorder in mental health and life
condition may trigger it. By similar token, they may be less vulnerable than the rest of
the population to other crimes. There are some other risks factors involve in disabilities
that are body measurements, Diet or nutrition, physical or exercise activity, smoking,
obesity and overweight (Dehaghani, 2019). In term so mental health there are some risk
and dangerous factors are involved such as stressful life and situations in order to
financial issues or anything else, previous mental disorder, Traumatic experiences like
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assault and military combat, Brain damage as an outcome of some serious injury and
many other. There are some causes of disabilities that are nuclear accidents, poor
access to health care, malnutrition and poverty, illness, injections or medicines, bad
work condition and many more. Risk in mental health and disabilities, both are very
harmful to health and personal growth. In the criminal justice systems both have an
important part in terms of reducing risk and avoid dangerous situation in mental health
and disabilities. People can treat themselves by taking some steps such as; doing some
mental and physical exercise, taking some sessions from doctor or consultants, self
care of body and some other factors. As per Stephen Hawking, director of Research at
the centre for the theoretical cosmology, As the theoretical physicist he understand in
well manner the concept of Vulnerability, there is little in cosmos that is not susceptible
to harm. Even the very universe itself may someday come to and final point. Humanity
has always been vulnerable to different challenges and there can be no doubt that best
scientific discoveries from the penicillin to the periodic table, from evolution to electricity,
that have supported them to understand world in reduce vulnerability and build more
resilient societies. Now days there are various government campaigns that are provide
free sessions to those who are suffering from any mental issues (Defining and
assessing vulnerability within law enforcement and public health organisations: a
scoping review, 2019).
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