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oapen-20.500.12657-478382021-04-14T10:20:00Z Mental Health in Prisons Mills, Alice Kendall, Kathleen prison environment; architecture; culture; mental health; services bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKV Crime & criminology::JKVP Penology & punishment::JKVP1 Prisons 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. 2021-04-14T10:11:25Z 2021-04-14T10:11:25Z 2018 book 9783319940892 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47838 eng Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-319-94090-8 10.1007/978-3-319-94090-8 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e32875b4-dd9d-4a2d-b308-50b7c548b498 9783319940892 385 open access
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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.
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