Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction (Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland (Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland)....Pages 25-47 The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration (Simon Cross, Yvonne Jewkes)....Pages 49-72 Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis (Bruce A. Arrigo, Brian G. Sellers)....Pages 73-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Care Versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Health Care (Alice Mills, Kathleen Kendall)....Pages 105-129 How Do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners? (Hattie Moyes)....Pages 131-157 ‘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, Rosie Meek)....Pages 159-182 Front Matter ....Pages 183-183 Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison (Ruth McCausland, Elizabeth McEntyre, Eileen Baldry)....Pages 185-210 Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective (James Cavney, Susan Hatters Friedman)....Pages 211-234 ‘Malignant Reality’: Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prisons in England and Wales (Joe Sim)....Pages 235-258 Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical/Correctional/Welfare Circuit (Maureen Norton-Hawk, Susan Sered)....Pages 259-284 Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective (Andrea Daley, Kim Radford)....Pages 285-307 Front Matter ....Pages 309-309 A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space (Shoshana Pollack, Denise Edwards)....Pages 311-329 Coping with Incarceration: The Emerging Case for the Utility of Peer-Support Programmes in Prison (Christian Perrin)....Pages 331-351 Front Matter ....Pages 353-353 Conclusion (Kathleen Kendall, Alice Mills)....Pages 355-364 Back Matter ....Pages 365-385 « 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 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur 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 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.-- Provided by publisher