Mental health in prisons : critical perspectives on treatment and confinement /
Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall, editors.
- xxiii, 385 pages
- Palgrave studies in prisons and penology .
- Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. .
Introduction / I. Penal power and the psy disciplines : contextualising mental health and imprisonment -- 'We are recreating Bedlam' : a history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland / The architecture of psychiatry and the architecture of incarceration / Psychological jurisprudence and the relational problems of de-vitalisation and finalisation : revisiting the society of captives thesis / II. Care versus custody -- Care versus custody : challenges in the provision of prison mental health care / How do new psychoactive substances affect the mental health of prisoners? / '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 / III. Dividing practices : structural violence, mental health and imprisonment -- Institutions of default and management : aboriginal women with mental and cognitive disability in prison / Culture, mental illness, and prison : a New Zealand perspective / 'Malignant reality' : mental ill-helth and self-inflicted deaths in prisons in England and Wales / Institutional captives : US women trapped in the medical-correctional-welfare circuit / Queer and trans incarceration distress : considerations from a mad queer abolitionist perspective / IV. Alternative penal practices and communities -- A sense of belonging : the Walls to Bridges educational program as a healing space / Coping with incarceration : the emerging case for the utility of peer-support programmes in prison / V. Mental health in prisons : key messages and strategies from critical perspectives -- Conclusion / Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall -- Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland -- Simon Cross and Yvonne Jewkes -- Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers -- Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall -- Hattie Moyes -- Anastasia Jablonska and Rosie Meek -- Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre and Eileen Baldry -- James Cavney and Susan Hatters Friedman -- Joe Sim -- Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered -- Andrea Daley and Kim Radford -- Shoshana Pollack and Denise Edwards -- Chistian Perrin -- Kathleen Kendall and Alice Mills.