Mental Health in Prisons Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mills, Alice (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kendall, Kathleen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
• Subjects: Corrections.; Punishment.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Sex and law.; Forensic psychology.; Critical psychology.; Prison and Punishment.; Human Rights and Crime .; Gender, Sexuality and Law.; Forensic Psychology.; Critical Psychology.

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 transf...