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Decriminalizing LGBTQ+: Reproducing and resisting mental health inequities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2020

Tyler M. Argüello Open the ORCID record for Tyler M. Argüello [Opens in a new window]
Tyler M. Argüello*
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MSW Program, Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, USA
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*Address correspondence to: Tyler M. Argüello, PhD, DCSW, LCSW, Associate Professor and Director, MSW Program, Division of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento, Mariposa 4010, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA. (Email: tyler.arguello@csus.edu)
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Abstract

Secure settings are not queer because lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, Two Spirit, and asexual (LGBTQ+) people populate them, and neither are LGBTQ+ people inherently criminal because they are found in those spaces. Queer people bear disproportionate health, mental health, and social inequities that have had, historically and currently, the effect to criminalize them. This review discusses effective language and ideologies when working with LGBTQ+ people in secure settings. Major health, mental health, and social inequities are reviewed, along with the applied framework of minority stress. Then, the process of criminalization is diagrammed across the phases of predetainment, being in the system, and through re-entering the community. Finally, multilevel strategies are offered to decriminalize LGBTQ+ people ideologically and in practice.

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LGBTQ+queerminority stressaffirmative practiceheteronormativitycultural competence.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2020 , pp. 667 - 686
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