Mental Health in Prisons - Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Alice Mills • Kathleen Kendall
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	385
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-94089-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Criminal or forensic psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the mentally ill Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
LSN:	3-319-94089-9
Barcode:	9783319940892

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