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Mental health in prisons : critical perspectives on treatment and confinement / editors, Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in prisons and penology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Mental health services.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Mental health services--U.S. states.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; Themes of This Book: Critical Approaches to Treatment in Confinement; Structure of This Book; Bibliography; Part I Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines: Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment; 2 'We Are Recreating Bedlam': A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland; Creating Troubled Minds in Prison: The System of Separate Confinement; Managing Bedlam in the Late Nineteenth-Century Prison; Continuities and the Recreation of Bedlam
- 4 Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation: Revisiting the Society of Captives ThesisIntroduction; Psychological Jurisprudence as Radical Philosophy: An Overview; The Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation; On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Correctional Mental Health: Rethinking the Society of Captives; The Pains of Imprisonment: On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Human Relatedness; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Part II Care Versus Custody
- 5 Care Versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Health CareIntroduction; Mental Health Demand and Services in Prisons in England and Wales; Study Aims and Methodology; Research Setting; Methods and Methodology; Care Versus Custody; Risk Management and Institutional Convenience; Culture Clashes; Anti-therapeutic: Can Prisons Really Be Mentally 'Healthy'?; Discussion; Conclusion; Bibliography; 6 How Do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners?; The Direct and Indirect Effects of SC on Prisoner Mental Health; Service Evaluation
- Reducing Reasons to Use SCModerating the Negative Effects of SC Use; Reducing the Appeal of 'Positive' Effects of SC Use; Limiting the Long-Lasting and Wider Consequences of SC Use; Limitations and Future Research; Recommendations and Conclusions; Bibliography; 7 'There Was No Understanding, There Was No Care, There Was No Looking After Me': The Impact of the Prison Environment on the Mental Health of Female Prisoners; Introduction; Methodology; Design; Sampling and Participants; Analysis; Findings; Forced Community; Discipline and Punishment; Lack of Comfort and Care
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 30, 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: MENTAL HEALTH IN PRISONS.
- ISBN:
- 9783319940908
- 3319940902
- Publisher Number:
- 99979433404
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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