We are recreating bedlam' : a history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland

We are recreating bedlam' a history of mental illness and prison systems in England and Ireland

This essay explores the historical relationship between mental health and the prison system in England and Ireland, from the introduction of the separate system of discipline in the 1840s. In doing so, we focus on the persistently high rates of confinement of prisoners with mental health problems as...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cox, Catherine, author (author)
Format: eJournal
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Subjects:
Prisoners > Mental health services.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820429006719
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART 1. Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines : Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment
  • Chapter 2. 'We Are Recreating Bedlam': A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland / Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
  • Chapter 3. The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration / Simon Cross and Yvonne Jewkes.- Chapter 4. Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalization and Finalization: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis / Bruce A. Arrigo and Brian G. Sellers.- PART 2. Care versus Custody
  • Chapter 5. Care versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Healthcare / Alice Mills and Kathleen Kendall
  • Chapter 6. How do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners? / Hattie Moyes
  • Chapter 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 / Anastasia Jablonska and Rosie Meek.- PART 3 Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental health and Imprisonment
  • Chapter 8 Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison / Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre and Eileen Baldry
  • Chapter 9. Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective / James Cavney and Susan Hatters Friedman.- Chapter10. 'Malignant Reality': Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in England and Wales; Joe Sim
  • Chapter 11. Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical / Correctional / Welfare Circuit / Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Sered
  • Chapter 12. Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective / Andrea Daley and Kim Radford.- PART 3. Alternative Penal Practices and Communities
  • Chapter 13. A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space / Shoshana Pollack and Denise Edwards
  • Chapter 14. Coping with incarceration: The emerging case for the utility of peer-support programs in prison / Christian Perrin
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion / Kathleen Kendall and Alice Mills.

Similar Items