Dr. Jameca CooperForensic Psychology Consultant, Emergence Psychological Services · Board Certified Counseling Psychologist and Forensic Psychology Consultant

What they don’t tell you about being a criminal psychologist. #criminalpsychology #mentalhealth

27 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Dr. Jameca Cooper shares the often‑unspoken emotional challenges of working as a criminal psychologist consultant. She describes feeling deep disappointment when treating clients with serious, often untreated mental illness, only to see that the diagnosis has little effect on legal charges or sentencing. The speaker also expresses frustration at the cycle of repeated incarceration for individuals who resemble herself, highlighting the systemic limits of mental‑health interventions within the criminal justice system.

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One thing no one tells you about being a criminal psychologist is the disappointment. I had no idea the amount of disappointment I would feel working in this capacity as a criminal psychologist consultant. It's hard. Many times you go in and work with a client, find that they have really serious mental illness and maybe have never been treated or have been treated and still maybe has some struggles or some challenges, and sometimes it doesn't impact the charge and the sentence. And it's very hard, very difficult to see individuals that look like you keep going to jail over and over again.