Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement 1st Edition

Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319940892,9783319940908,3319940899,3319940902

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319940899
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319940892
• Author: Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
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
3. The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration
4. Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis
Part II. Care Versus Custody
5. Care Versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Health Care
6. How Do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners?
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
Part III. Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental Health and Imprisonment
8. Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison
9. Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective
10. ‘Malignant Reality’: Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prisons in England and Wales
11. Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical/Correctional/Welfare Circuit
12. Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective
Part IV. Alternative Penal Practices and Communities
13. A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space
14. Coping with Incarceration: The Emerging Case for the Utility of Peer-Support Programmes in Prison
Part V. Mental Health in Prisons: Key Messages and Strategies from Critical Perspectives
15. Conclusion

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