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Racism, the Criminal Legal System, and Health Inequities: Theories and Practices of Beyond Racial Equity Toward Liberatory Methodologies

Total Credits: 1 including 1 Category II CEs

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Structural Racism Series
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Instructor:
Lawrence Grandpre
Duration:
1 Hour 04 Minutes
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Description

The United States has the largest proportion of its citizens under criminal legal system control of any nation on the planet. This system not only reflects and perpetuates America’s long history of racial bias, but also creates racial disparities in physical and behavioral health outcomes. This presentation will discuss the rise of mass incarceration as a defining feature of the American criminal justice system (also known as the criminal legal system). We will analyze how the system uses drug laws and racial bias in prosecution and sentencing to perpetuate itself. We will engage with undertheorized components of the criminal legal system such as parole and probation and the family regulation system. Furthermore, we will show links between racial bias in the criminal legal system and the medical system. Finally, we will expose researchers and medical practitioners to tools to address racial bias and empower their clients to advocate for liberatory methodologies in reentry and medical care. These liberatory methodologies see communities targeted by mass incarceration as the solutions to the problems foisted upon them by the criminal legal system. 

 

This workshop is in accordance with and compliance with the NASW Standards with a focus on service, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, and social workers’ ethical responsibilities to clients, to colleagues, in practice settings, as professionals, to the social work profession, to the broader society.   

Maryland: This workshop is in compliance with the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners’ COMAR 10.42.03.06.A(5) and fulfills Maryland’s structural racism training requirement for licensed health professionals, as established by state regulation.

District of Columbia: This workshop is in compliance with the District of Columbia Board of Social Work 17-70-7008.4.  

 

Access and Refund Policy:

You have 30 days (from purchase) to access the recording and complete the quiz.

Refunds or transfers will not be granted after purchase.

Handouts

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Instructor

Lawrence Grandpre Related Seminars and Products

Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

lawrence@lbsbaltimore.com

(410) 216-3325

Lawrence Grandpre is Director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. His focuses include drug policy, criminal justice, police accountability, and community-based economic/educational development. He is the co-author of “The Black Book” and his work has been featured in The Guardian, The Baltimore Sun, Time Magazine and Black Agenda Report. He is also the co-host of the In Search of Black Power Podcast.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives:  

  • Identify the distinctions between contrasting narratives around the rise and maintenance of mass incarceration in the United State 

  • Be able to identify relevant health consequences of parole and probation  

  • Being exposed to the links between the narratives of anti-Blackness that are shared between the criminal legal system and the medical system   

  • Being exposed to the links between the medical system and the family regulation (also known as child protection) system  

  • Learn relevant considerations for practitioners for addressing the unique issues that come with serving individuals who are currently or formerly involved in the criminal legal system 

  • Be exposed to the concept of liberatory methodologies and be exposed to the basics of how to advocate for expanding the capacity of individuals impacted by the criminal legal system to build community capacity to address their health needs 

Bibliography & References

BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCES

Binswanger, Ingrid A., et al. “Health disparities and the criminal justice system: An agenda for further research and action.” Journal of Urban Health, vol. 89, no. 1, 14 Sept. 2011, pp. 98–107, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-011-9614-1. 

Finch, Charles. The African Background to Medical Science: Essays on African History, Science & Civilizations. Karnak House, 1990. 

Ghandnoosh, Nazgol. “One in Five: Ending Racial Inequity in Incarceration.” The Sentencing Project, 5 Feb. 2024, www.sentencingproject.org/reports/one-in-five-ending-racial-inequity-in-incarceration/#footnote-ref-13. 

Grantmakers In Health. “Ending Mass Incarceration Is a Public Health Imperative.” Grantmakers In Health, 10 Jan. 2023, www.gih.org/views-from-the-field/ending-mass-incarceration-is-a-public-health-imperative/. 

Hailu, Elleni M., et al. “Structural racism, mass incarceration, and racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity.” JAMA Network Open, vol. 7, no. 1, 26 Jan. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.53626. 

Mahaffey, Carlos, et al. “Psychosocial determinants of health among incarcerated Black Women: A Systematic Literature Review.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, vol. 27, no. 2A, May 2016, pp. 45–70, https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2016.0059. 

Myers, Anna, and Sarah Fathallah. “Adding Friction to Mandatory Reporting: The Case for Survivor-Centered Research.” EPIC, 19 Dec. 2024, www.epicpeople.org/adding-friction-to-mandatory-reporting-survivor-centered-research/. 

Niño, Michael, et al. “The racial/ethnic health consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system: How consequential is probation and other justice system contact for self-rated and chronic conditions?” Journal of Criminal Justice, vol. 87, July 2023, p. 102073, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102073. 

Pfaff, John F. Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration - and How to Achieve Real Reform. Basic Books, 2017. 

Roberts, Dorothy E. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Basic Books, 2022. 

Roberts, Dorothy E., and Shayna Small. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Random House Audio, 2020. 
 

Schnittker, Jason, et al. “Incarceration and the health of the African American community.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, vol. 8, no. 1, 2011, pp. 133–141, https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x11000026. 

Slutkin, Gary. “Violence Is a Contagious Disease.” Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary., U.S. National Library of Medicine- Forum on Global ViolencePrevention, 6 Feb. 2013, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207245/. 

Wilson, Amos N. Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination. Afrikan World InfoSystems, 2020. 

Course Completion & CE Information

Category II Maryland BSWE Requirement

The Office of Continuing Professional Education at the University of Maryland School of Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs. This workshop qualifies for 1 Category II Continuing Education Units for Structrual Racism. The Office of Continuing Professional Education is also authorized by the Maryland Board of Psychologists and the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors to sponsor Category A continuing professional education. 

To receive ACE credit, full attendance is required; no partial credits will be given for partial attendance. 

 

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Target Audience

Social Workers, LCPCs, Psychologists and all Behavioral Health Practioners

We welcome anyone interested in the topic!

 

ADA Accommodations

If you are requesting ADA accommodations, please contact our office via email at least two weeks prior to the workshop date. Requests after that date may not be fulfilled.  

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LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR PLATFORMS

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Evaluation

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After one (1) week, participants will no longer have access to the evaluation and will have to contact CPE about reactivation.

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