2018 McNair Scholars Program Summer Research Symposium
Presentation Type
Open Access Paper
Abstract
The majority of the population immediately think of “criminal” or “solitary confinement”. However, the prison population is made up of people who were swept up by policy implementation that was used as a form of social control. This systematic literature review explores the relationship between U.S. prisons and mental health using four main themes: the history of US prisons, race in prison, gender in prison, and mental health in prison.
Start Date
20-7-2018 10:00 AM
End Date
20-7-2018 12:00 PM
Faculty Advisor
Marybeth Stalp
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Department
McNair Scholars Program at UNI
Copyright
©2018 Vanessa Jordan
File Format
application/pdf
Embargo Date
9-19-2018
The Relationship between U.S. Prison and Mental Health: A Review of Literature
The majority of the population immediately think of “criminal” or “solitary confinement”. However, the prison population is made up of people who were swept up by policy implementation that was used as a form of social control. This systematic literature review explores the relationship between U.S. prisons and mental health using four main themes: the history of US prisons, race in prison, gender in prison, and mental health in prison.
