The Crypto-Apartheid of Race, Class, and Safety Arbitration on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Abstract
Inpatient psychiatric treatment and violence assessment are strongly influenced by a patient’s race and class identity. The authors argue that psychiatrists enact a crypto-apartheid wherein they recognize and condemn the structural racism and classism disadvantaging many patients, but through violence risk assessments and dispositional decisions, psychiatrists also function as arbiters of public safety and repeatedly disadvantage less-privileged patients to further symptomatic decline or even subsequent incarceration.
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