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1|Acknowledgements|7
1|Contents|8
1|Notes on Contributors|11
1|Abbreviations|17
1|List of Figures|19
1|List of Tables|20
1|1 Introduction|21
2|Themes of This Book: Critical Approaches to Treatment in Confinement|24
2|Structure of This Book|31
2|Bibliography|39
1|Part I Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines: Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment|43
1|2 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland|44
2|Creating Troubled Minds in Prison: The System of Separate Confinement|47
2|Managing Bedlam in the Late Nineteenth-Century Prison|50
2|Continuities and the Recreation of Bedlam|56
2|Bibliography|62
1|3 The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration|67
2|Introduction: Asylums, Architecture and Regimes of the Imagination|67
2|Palaces and Prisons: Asylum Visions and Useful Architecture|68
2|Further Expansion of Institutions in the Twentieth Century|74
2|Asylums and Prisons Under Scrutiny: The Role of Sociology, Psychology and the Media|79
2|Concluding Thoughts: Will Future Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons Cure, Care or Inflict Further Harm?|84
2|Bibliography|87
1|4 Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis|91
2|Introduction|91
2|Psychological Jurisprudence as Radical Philosophy: An Overview|94
2|The Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation|99
2|On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Correctional Mental Health: Rethinking the Society of Captives|103
2|The Pains of Imprisonment: On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Human Relatedness|105
2|Summary and Conclusions|109
2|Bibliography|115
1|Part II Care Versus Custody|120
1|5 Care Versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Health Care|121
2|Introduction|121
2|Mental Health Demand and Services in Prisons in England and Wales|122
2|Study Aims and Methodology|126
3|Research Setting|126
3|Methods and Methodology|127
2|Care Versus Custody|128
3|Risk Management and Institutional Convenience|128
3|Culture Clashes|131
3|Anti-therapeutic: Can Prisons Really Be Mentally ‘Healthy’?|134
2|Discussion|136
2|Conclusion|138
2|Bibliography|140
1|6 How Do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners?|146
2|The Direct and Indirect Effects of SC on Prisoner Mental Health|150
2|Service Evaluation|154
2|Reducing Reasons to Use SC|156
2|Moderating the Negative Effects of SC Use|159
2|Reducing the Appeal of ‘Positive’ Effects of SC Use|162
2|Limiting the Long-Lasting and Wider Consequences of SC Use|163
2|Limitations and Future Research|165
2|Recommendations and Conclusions|167
2|Bibliography|168
1|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|173
2|Introduction|173
2|Methodology|176
3|Design|176
3|Sampling and Participants|176
3|Analysis|177
2|Findings|177
3|Forced Community|178
3|Discipline and Punishment|181
3|Lack of Comfort and Care|183
3|Physical Activity, Family and Mental Health|186
2|Conclusion|187
2|Bibliography|190
1|Part III Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental Health and Imprisonment|197
1|8 Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison|198
2|Introduction|198
2|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in Prison|199
2|Critical Framework|201
2|Quantitative Findings|205
2|Qualitative Findings|208
3|Structural Violence and Complex Trauma|209
3|Prisons as Default Management Institutions for Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability|212
2|Discussion|217
2|Keeping Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability Out of Criminal Justice Systems|218
2|Bibliography|220
1|9 Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective|224
2|Indigenous Peoples, Migrant Minorities, and Colonial Cultures|224
2|Culture, Colonisation, and Acculturation|226
2|Colonisation and Acculturation in New Zealand|228
2|Rates of Māori Mental Health and Incarceration in New Zealand|232
2|Barriers to Care|235
2|Mental Health Services in New Zealand Prisons: A Cultural Renaissance|236
3|‘Strategies for Freedom’|238
3|A Culturally Informed Prison Model of Care|239
3|Kaupapa Māori and Pasifika Stream: Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatric Services|240
3|Māori Focused Units Within Prisons and Rangitahi Youth Courts|241
2|Conclusions and Recommendations|242
2|Bibliography|244
1|10 ‘Malignant Reality’: Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prisons in England and Wales|248
2|Introduction|248
2|State Incompetence and Systemic Neglect|249
2|The Reality of Self-Inflicted Death|252
2|Thinking Critically About Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prison|255
2|Places of the ‘Loneliest Loneliness’: Death and Solitary Confinement|258
2|Challenging State ‘Truth’: Death and Mental Ill-Health as ‘Criminology from Below’|261
2|Developing Radical Alternatives and Structures of Democratic Accountability|263
2|Conclusion|266
2|Bibliography|268
1|11 Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical/Correctional/Welfare Circuit|272
2|Introduction|273
2|Research|274
3|Participants|276
2|Captives of the Institutional Circuit|278
3|Institutional Circuit|278
3|Institutional Captivity|279
3|Constrained Choices|281
2|Katie: Stuck in the Institutional Circuit|282
3|Housing|285
3|Criminal Justice System|286
3|Employment|286
3|Mental Health Care|286
2|Melanie: Drugs, Gender and the Institutional Circuit|287
3|Criminal Justice System|288
3|Housing|288
3|Employment|288
3|Mental Health Care|289
2|Gender, Mental Health and Ideology in the Institutional Circuit|290
2|Conclusion|293
2|Bibliography|295
1|12 Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective|298
2|Introduction|298
2|Queer and Trans Incarceration|300
2|Queer and Trans Mental Health and Minority Stress|301
2|A Mad Queer Abolitionist Framework|306
2|A Mad Queer Abolition Strategy|310
2|Conclusion|313
2|Bibliography|316
1|Part IV Alternative Penal Practices and Communities|321
1|13 A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space|322
2|Introduction|322
2|The Walls to Bridges Program: Creating a Learning Community Within a Prison Classroom|323
2|Narratives About Criminalised Women and Mental Health|326
2|Denise|328
2|Conclusion|337
2|Bibliography|339
1|14 Coping with Incarceration: The Emerging Case for the Utility of Peer-Support Programmes in Prison|341
2|Introduction|341
2|Defining Peer Support|343
2|The Preliminary Case for Peer Support in Carceral Settings|344
2|Three Ways That Peer Support Can Contribute to the Well-Being of Peer Supporters|347
3|Countering Boredom|347
3|Shielding from Deprivation|350
3|Finding Perspective|353
2|Concluding Comments|355
2|Bibliography|356
1|Part V Mental Health in Prisons: Key Messages and Strategies from Critical Perspectives|362
1|15 Conclusion|363
2|Mental Health in Prison: Key Messages from Critical Perspectives|363
2|Mental Health in Prison: Key Strategies from Critical Perspectives|368
2|Bibliography|371
1|Index|373
1|Contents|8
1|Notes on Contributors|11
1|Abbreviations|17
1|List of Figures|19
1|List of Tables|20
1|1 Introduction|21
2|Themes of This Book: Critical Approaches to Treatment in Confinement|24
2|Structure of This Book|31
2|Bibliography|39
1|Part I Penal Power and the Psy Disciplines: Contextualising Mental Health and Imprisonment|43
1|2 ‘We Are Recreating Bedlam’: A History of Mental Illness and Prison Systems in England and Ireland|44
2|Creating Troubled Minds in Prison: The System of Separate Confinement|47
2|Managing Bedlam in the Late Nineteenth-Century Prison|50
2|Continuities and the Recreation of Bedlam|56
2|Bibliography|62
1|3 The Architecture of Psychiatry and the Architecture of Incarceration|67
2|Introduction: Asylums, Architecture and Regimes of the Imagination|67
2|Palaces and Prisons: Asylum Visions and Useful Architecture|68
2|Further Expansion of Institutions in the Twentieth Century|74
2|Asylums and Prisons Under Scrutiny: The Role of Sociology, Psychology and the Media|79
2|Concluding Thoughts: Will Future Psychiatric Hospitals and Prisons Cure, Care or Inflict Further Harm?|84
2|Bibliography|87
1|4 Psychological Jurisprudence and the Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation: Revisiting the Society of Captives Thesis|91
2|Introduction|91
2|Psychological Jurisprudence as Radical Philosophy: An Overview|94
2|The Relational Problems of De-vitalisation and Finalisation|99
2|On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Correctional Mental Health: Rethinking the Society of Captives|103
2|The Pains of Imprisonment: On the Deficit and Desistance Models of Human Relatedness|105
2|Summary and Conclusions|109
2|Bibliography|115
1|Part II Care Versus Custody|120
1|5 Care Versus Custody: Challenges in the Provision of Prison Mental Health Care|121
2|Introduction|121
2|Mental Health Demand and Services in Prisons in England and Wales|122
2|Study Aims and Methodology|126
3|Research Setting|126
3|Methods and Methodology|127
2|Care Versus Custody|128
3|Risk Management and Institutional Convenience|128
3|Culture Clashes|131
3|Anti-therapeutic: Can Prisons Really Be Mentally ‘Healthy’?|134
2|Discussion|136
2|Conclusion|138
2|Bibliography|140
1|6 How Do New Psychoactive Substances Affect the Mental Health of Prisoners?|146
2|The Direct and Indirect Effects of SC on Prisoner Mental Health|150
2|Service Evaluation|154
2|Reducing Reasons to Use SC|156
2|Moderating the Negative Effects of SC Use|159
2|Reducing the Appeal of ‘Positive’ Effects of SC Use|162
2|Limiting the Long-Lasting and Wider Consequences of SC Use|163
2|Limitations and Future Research|165
2|Recommendations and Conclusions|167
2|Bibliography|168
1|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|173
2|Introduction|173
2|Methodology|176
3|Design|176
3|Sampling and Participants|176
3|Analysis|177
2|Findings|177
3|Forced Community|178
3|Discipline and Punishment|181
3|Lack of Comfort and Care|183
3|Physical Activity, Family and Mental Health|186
2|Conclusion|187
2|Bibliography|190
1|Part III Dividing Practices: Structural Violence, Mental Health and Imprisonment|197
1|8 Institutions of Default and Management: Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability in Prison|198
2|Introduction|198
2|Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women in Prison|199
2|Critical Framework|201
2|Quantitative Findings|205
2|Qualitative Findings|208
3|Structural Violence and Complex Trauma|209
3|Prisons as Default Management Institutions for Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability|212
2|Discussion|217
2|Keeping Aboriginal Women with Mental and Cognitive Disability Out of Criminal Justice Systems|218
2|Bibliography|220
1|9 Culture, Mental Illness, and Prison: A New Zealand Perspective|224
2|Indigenous Peoples, Migrant Minorities, and Colonial Cultures|224
2|Culture, Colonisation, and Acculturation|226
2|Colonisation and Acculturation in New Zealand|228
2|Rates of Māori Mental Health and Incarceration in New Zealand|232
2|Barriers to Care|235
2|Mental Health Services in New Zealand Prisons: A Cultural Renaissance|236
3|‘Strategies for Freedom’|238
3|A Culturally Informed Prison Model of Care|239
3|Kaupapa Māori and Pasifika Stream: Auckland Regional Forensic Psychiatric Services|240
3|Māori Focused Units Within Prisons and Rangitahi Youth Courts|241
2|Conclusions and Recommendations|242
2|Bibliography|244
1|10 ‘Malignant Reality’: Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prisons in England and Wales|248
2|Introduction|248
2|State Incompetence and Systemic Neglect|249
2|The Reality of Self-Inflicted Death|252
2|Thinking Critically About Mental Ill-Health and Self-Inflicted Deaths in Prison|255
2|Places of the ‘Loneliest Loneliness’: Death and Solitary Confinement|258
2|Challenging State ‘Truth’: Death and Mental Ill-Health as ‘Criminology from Below’|261
2|Developing Radical Alternatives and Structures of Democratic Accountability|263
2|Conclusion|266
2|Bibliography|268
1|11 Institutional Captives: US Women Trapped in the Medical/Correctional/Welfare Circuit|272
2|Introduction|273
2|Research|274
3|Participants|276
2|Captives of the Institutional Circuit|278
3|Institutional Circuit|278
3|Institutional Captivity|279
3|Constrained Choices|281
2|Katie: Stuck in the Institutional Circuit|282
3|Housing|285
3|Criminal Justice System|286
3|Employment|286
3|Mental Health Care|286
2|Melanie: Drugs, Gender and the Institutional Circuit|287
3|Criminal Justice System|288
3|Housing|288
3|Employment|288
3|Mental Health Care|289
2|Gender, Mental Health and Ideology in the Institutional Circuit|290
2|Conclusion|293
2|Bibliography|295
1|12 Queer and Trans Incarceration Distress: Considerations from a Mad Queer Abolitionist Perspective|298
2|Introduction|298
2|Queer and Trans Incarceration|300
2|Queer and Trans Mental Health and Minority Stress|301
2|A Mad Queer Abolitionist Framework|306
2|A Mad Queer Abolition Strategy|310
2|Conclusion|313
2|Bibliography|316
1|Part IV Alternative Penal Practices and Communities|321
1|13 A Sense of Belonging: The Walls to Bridges Educational Program as a Healing Space|322
2|Introduction|322
2|The Walls to Bridges Program: Creating a Learning Community Within a Prison Classroom|323
2|Narratives About Criminalised Women and Mental Health|326
2|Denise|328
2|Conclusion|337
2|Bibliography|339
1|14 Coping with Incarceration: The Emerging Case for the Utility of Peer-Support Programmes in Prison|341
2|Introduction|341
2|Defining Peer Support|343
2|The Preliminary Case for Peer Support in Carceral Settings|344
2|Three Ways That Peer Support Can Contribute to the Well-Being of Peer Supporters|347
3|Countering Boredom|347
3|Shielding from Deprivation|350
3|Finding Perspective|353
2|Concluding Comments|355
2|Bibliography|356
1|Part V Mental Health in Prisons: Key Messages and Strategies from Critical Perspectives|362
1|15 Conclusion|363
2|Mental Health in Prison: Key Messages from Critical Perspectives|363
2|Mental Health in Prison: Key Strategies from Critical Perspectives|368
2|Bibliography|371
1|Index|373