Examine the relationship of mental health and criminal behavior: Psychiatric

illness that is condition that contributes to violence and criminality

This generation or year, mental health is more recognized and look onto. The

issues regarding mental health are regarded and not swept under the rug compare to

the traditional ideas of persons in general. However, despite this assumption towards

mental health, there are still pre-existing concept in relation to this. Once people heard

of mental health, it was then immediately be link to a psychiatric illness. This is the

stereotype of mental health.

Rather than mental health, the access to medical health care seems difficult to

every country. The lack of help remains the main factor to every issue as a whole, in

this matter, the mental health. Improving the access to health care may therefore lessen

or be an effective way to lessen criminality rather than fueling to do it for criminality

among people with a risk in mental health can be reduced through treatment.

When we think of violence there’s a higher possibility that it is in connection with

criminality in which we can say that violence is one of the most essential elements in a

crime. But when a seemingly bad character was portrayed may it be in the television or

a publication the initial ideas would be asking if there is something wrong with him if

he’s crazy or faulty. This marks in our head when a person with a mental illness then

commits a crime but in reality, (Peterson. 2014) the vast majority of people with mental

illness are not violent, not criminal and not dangerous. This situation attracts the

attention of public and media, at the same time the media contribute on the conception
on how we understand a something. The idea of the connection of mental illness to

criminality is an issue highlighted by the media.

There’s an opposition stating that the mental health of a person may help in

predicting if a person has arising criminal behavior of either to developed behavior or a

behavior in the making. Some mentally ill person is treated as criminal and views as the

same.

Mental health is understood as the absence of illness, positive mental health, and

a state of equilibrium. (Rodriquez, Coronel 2022) Mental health may be perceived as

our image or character as we socialize to others. It illustrates our well-being where our

mind is as see through as the action we take. Our mind as well as our action requires a

person a time to fully understand it’s intention, to why we did something and what cause

us to do that thing. There’s a need of awareness to understand our mental state like we

are to our surrounding, and the surrounding to us too.

According to Schaal (2022) The social conflict theory of criminology suggests

that criminal behavior is caused by social inequality and limited resources on Earth,

resulting in a constant struggle between the rich and the poor. The criminal behavior is

a reflection of our environment, what we experience in our hardships and our reaction is

shows how we solve it. The reaction of our action was applied from the action of others

in which case, the criminal behavior or simply the behavior is the cause from an

adaption method.

Network theory explains that mental disorder is raised from direct interaction

between symptoms. (Borsboom, 2017) Biological, psychological and societal influences

facilitate connection between psychopathological symptoms. Biological School of

thought explain mental health as “The idea is that something physical is the cause of

mental illness. Symptoms are “outward signs of the inner physical disorder” (McLeod,

2018). The creation or action from the outside led to build the character of a person

base off to this matter. Symptoms of possible disorder can be confused at first as a

manner if it is not inborn.

The concern once violence was learned from the surrounding is the primary

issue on why it is first done and adapted, what situation does a person must enter to

come up to this resort. The concept of violence was some kind of deep and intimate

relationship to the notion of harm destruction and human suffering and this truism goes

a long way toward explaining why violence is generally regarded as an easter

mysterious social problem and something about which anything society must be

concerned. Sociological criminological theories on violence provide some alternative

approaches to explaining violence. These sociological criminological theories include:

differential association, i.e., an explanation of violence as a certain kind of behavior that

is transmitted through generations via learning; strain and institutional anomie (Merton,

1938), where violence is explained as breeding under conditions of a disjuncture

between collective cultural goals and the institutional norms for their attainment;

subcultural theory, where violence is explained by the working class' rejection of middle-

class values; control theory, asking why most people are not violent. (Strid, Hearn

2022). When a person would result to violence, the outburst of their emotion is in which

they’re loss of words to describe their feelings would then convert it to action. If that

action was relieved thru violence on the reason of body instinct where the body get use
to express things the same way, it is only one of the reason that a person would act on

the basis of their emotion, it mirrors the status of their mentality.

PAR 10 INTERNATIONAL LEGAL BASIS

. People with a mental illness may be subject to the UN Convention on the

Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), depending on definitions of terms such as

‘impairment’, ‘long-term’ and the capaciousness of the word ‘includes’ in the

Convention's characterisation of persons with disabilities. Particularly challenging under

the CRPD is the scope, if any, for involuntary treatment.

Conventional mental health legislation, such as the Mental Health Act (England

and Wales) appears to violate, for example, Article 4 (‘no discrimination of any kind on

the basis of disability’), Article 12 (persons shall ‘enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis

with others in all aspects of life’) and Article 14 (‘the existence of a disability shall in no

case justify a deprivation of liberty’).

PAR 11 NATIONAL LEGAL BASIS

Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, 1992, Republic Act No. 7277: This Act

provides for the rehabilitation, self-development and self-reliance of disabled persons

and their integration into the mainstream of society.

Enactment of Republic Act 7277 (s.1992) of the Magna Carta for Persons with

Disabilities that grants the rights and privileges of disabled persons and promulgates the
provision for the rehabilitation, self-development, and self-reliance of persons with

disability and their integration to society.

Republic Act 9442 (s. of 2006) amends RA 7277 which stipulates expanded

privileges and incentives of public services to persons with disability as well as insertion

of new sections on deliverance from public ridicule and deliverance from vilification.

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