Mental Health in Prisons
Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement
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Beschreibung
This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs, offer the possibility of transformative practice and support. By drawing on international contributions, it furthermore demonstrates how mental health in prisons is affected by wider socio-economic and cultural factors, and how in recent years neo-liberalism has abandoned, criminalised and contained large numbers of the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable populations. Overall, this collection challenges the dominant narrative of individualism by focusing instead on the relationship between structural inequalities, suffering, survival and punishment.
Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs, offer the possibility of transformative practice and support. By drawing on international contributions, it furthermore demonstrates how mental health in prisons is affected by wider socio-economic and cultural factors, and how in recent years neo-liberalism has abandoned, criminalised and contained large numbers of the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable populations. Overall, this collection challenges the dominant narrative of individualism by focusing instead on the relationship between structural inequalities, suffering, survival and punishment.
Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Includes an open access chapter (Chapter 2: ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland), available via https://bit.ly/2OYJlKx Considers how mental health intersects with poverty, gender, gender identity, racialization, ethnicity, culture, colonialism, sexual orientation, age and violence Outlines the historical and socio-legal context of mental health and imprisonment Discusses the inappropriateness/unsuitability of prison as a place of treatment
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Alice Mills
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“In this book, Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall bring together a remarkable set of contributions. Taken together, they remind the reader of the silent but powerfully individualising nature of neo-liberal societies and the toll they take on those imprisoned with mental health problems. Documenting the further marginalisation of the already marginalised, this edited collection sets an important agenda for change. It remains to be seen whether or not anyone listens to its findings. They should.” (Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK)
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