Psychiatric History & Arrest Risk

[differenceblog]

Two articles published yesterday look at the relationship between arrest records and psychiatric problems in young adults. Copeland et al (2007) followed 1,420 adolescents in North Carolina from psychiatric intake at age 9-13 through age 21. Davis et al (2007) followed 1,519 teens in Massachusetts DMH care from age 15-20 through age 25

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[poeticalpanther]

I have the dubious distinction of having been not only arrested, but jailed as, a crossdressing queer (obviously, this was some years before transition!). I support your desire never to get anywhere near the place. It was worse, of course, as a military jail, because it meant there were Military Police in charge of me. I'm not going to lay out the kinds of things they did, but let me say that when I heard about the US MPs involved in Abu Ghraib? I was quite unshocked.

Having read recently of the cisgendered woman who was arrested and put into a men's jail, because the police believed she was a post-op trans woman, gave me chills, to the bone. Until then, I'd thought of my ID as a kind of get-out-of-boy-jail thing. Now? Eep.

And they'd know, of course; they have my fingerprints, and all my fingerprints go to the same name: $BOYNAME. :(

[differenceblog]

*hugs*