Mental Health and Punishments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Health and Punishments write by Paul Taylor. This book was released on 2020-06-09. Mental Health and Punishments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities? How are risks identified, managed and minimised? What are ideological differences of care and control, punishment and therapy negotiated in practice? These questions are just some which are debated in the eleven chapters of this book. Each with their focus on a given area, authors raise the challenges, controversies, dilemmas and concerns attached to this particular context of delivering justice. Taking insights on imprisonment, community punishments and forensic services, this book provides a broad analysis of environments. But it also casts a critical light on how punishment of the mentally vulnerable sits within public attitudes and ideas, policy discourses, and the ways in which those seen to present as risky and dangerous are imagined. Written in a clear and direct style, this book serves as a valuable resource for those studying, working or researching at the intersections of healthcare and criminal justice domains. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners within the fields of criminology and criminal justice, social work, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, mental health nursing and probation.
Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness
Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness write by Patricia Erickson. This book was released on 2008-07-18. Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals in the 1960s, which led to more patients living on their own, as the reason for this high rate of incarceration. But this explanation does not justify why our society has chosen to treat these people with punitive measures. In Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness, Patricia E. Erickson and Steven K. Erickson explore how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped current policies and they identify the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. Drawing on high-profile cases, the authors provide a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, sex offenders, psychologically disturbed juveniles, the injury and death rates of mentally ill prisoners due to the inappropriate use of force, the high level of suicide, and the release of mentally ill individuals from jails and prisons who have received little or no treatment.
Mental Health in Prisons
Mental Health in Prisons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mental Health in Prisons write by Alice Mills. This book was released on 2018-11-19. Mental Health in Prisons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Waiting for an Echo
Waiting for an Echo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waiting for an Echo write by Christine Montross. This book was released on 2021-07-20. Waiting for an Echo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A haunting and harrowing indictment . . . [a] significant achievement.” —The New York Times Book Review L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist * New York Times Book Review Paperback Row * Time Best New Books July 2020 Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American jails and prisons. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones. Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. This expertise—the mind in crisis—has enabled her to reckon with the human stories behind mass incarceration. A father attempting to weigh the impossible calculus of a plea bargain. A bright young woman whose life is derailed by addiction. Boys in a juvenile detention facility who, desperate for human connection, invent a way to communicate with one another from cell to cell. Overextended doctors and correctional officers who strive to provide care and security in environments riddled with danger. Our methods of incarceration take away not only freedom but also selfhood and soundness of mind. In a nation where 95 percent of all inmates are released from prison and return to our communities, this is a practice that punishes us all.
Reforming Punishment
Reforming Punishment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Punishment write by Craig Haney. This book was released on 2006. Reforming Punishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This hard-hitting book challenges current prison practice and points to ways psychologists and policy makers can strive for a more humane justice system.
