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NOTE THAT QUESTION 8 IS WORTH 50 PTS AND ALL THE OTHER QUESTIONS ARE WORTH 5
1) The author notes on p. 86 that One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest reflected and reinforced the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) judgment of involuntary hospitalization. What was that judgment and why did it lead the ACLU to "orchestrate" (as the author writes) the court cases Lessard V. Schmidt and O'Connor v. Donaldson? (5 pts)
2) As the author notes, California moved first to move mental patients out of state institutions ("deinstutionalization") while also making it nearly impossible to move them back if things went badly for them (or others). As a consequence, it was (in the author's words) "the canary in the coal mine." That is, the state of California was an early indicator of what would come later for the country as a whole. Did this early experience suggest that "community health centers" would (A) serve the mental health needs of their patients or (B) the financial desires of their owners? How do we know if it was (A) or (B)? (5 pts)
3) What sort of neighborhoods did "board-and-care" move into and why? (I'm looking here for the distinguishing characteristics of the neighborhoods, not their names) (5 pts)
4) How and in what ways did the lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties interfere with the intention for mental health patients to receive their medication from community health centers? (5 pts)
5) What early evidence from California was there that deinstutionalization would have an impact on crime and what was that impact? (5 pts)
6) What about the patients that were being released in the 1980s meant that deinstiutionalization would go even less well in that decade than it had in the 1970s? (5 pts)
7) What was the relationship between deinstutionalization and homelessness in the 1980s? (5 pts)
8) Imagine that you are the criminal justice policy advisor to a New York senator in 1990 (Congrats! it's an excellent job and one that many JJ grads would love to land)
Using the evidence presented on pp. 103 - 105, write a position paper for your boss on whether or not deinstutionalization has a meaningful impact on crime. Here's the complication: the Senator has no time for blather and has asked that your position paper be no longer than 2 paragraphs.
Organize your response around the familiar claim/evidence/warrant format and integrate your direct quotations using either METHOD 3 OR METHOD 4 FROM THE EXPLANATION OF HOW TO INTEGRATE QUOTATIONS. Be sure to have at least 3 different quotations from the text. (50 rather than 5 pts)
9) Using the evidence presented on pp. 106 - 107, describe both the impact of mental-health related financial incentives on nursing homes in Illinois and the impact of nursing-home operators' lobbying on laws. (5 pts)
10) How does the case of Larry Hogue capture the unintended consequences of both deinstutionalization and laws against involuntary hospitalization (which were, in turn, based upon the Lessard V. Schmidt decision addressed by question 1) of debilitated patients who refused care. (5 pts)
11) The author quotes one analyst who described the NYPD as the "world's largest psychiatric outreach team." What circumstances make this a plausible description of the NYPD. (5 pts)