Punishment and Madness: Governing Prisoners with Mental Health Problems

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ISBN: 9781904385905 | 1904385907
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Copyright: 12/19/2006

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(Routledge-Cavendish) Univ. of Manchester, UK. Focuses on responses to the imprisonment of offenders with mental health problems from the 1980s to the present. Topics include a brief history of imprisoning the 'mad', prisons and mental health under the Thatcher administrations, and more. For medical historians. British-oriented. Softcover, hardcover available.

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List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Punishment, prisons and madness	p. 1
Background and context	p. 1
Research guestions and key themes	p. 9
Overview of the book	p. 16
A brief history of imprisoning the 'mad'	p. 19
The 'Great Confinement': 'Madness' in the houses of correction	p. 20
'Madness' in the early modern prison	p. 22
'Madness' and the Victorian penal system	p. 24
'Madness' and the emergence of penal-welfarism	p. 28
The rise of prison psychology and psychiatry	p. 31
'Madness' in the era of rehabilitation	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 39
The New Right and managerialism, 1980-1990	p. 41
Context: Britain in the 1980s	p. 41
Prisons and mental health under the Thatcher administrations	p. 47
Conclusions	p. 64
The Woolf report and prison reform, 1990-1993	p. 69
Context: Political and penal 'crises'	p. 69
Woolf, Reed and prisoners with mental health problems	p. 72
Conclusions	p. 94
Penal populism and austere institutions, 1993-1997	p. 97
Context: 'Back to basics'	p. 97
Howard's way: Penal populism?	p. 99
Conclusions	p. 117
New Labour and risk management, 1997-2005	p. 123
Context: The rise of New Labour	p. 123
Refiguring health care and managing 'dangerous' offenders	p. 125
Conclusions	p. 145
Conclusions	p. 149
The impact of late modernity on the government of prisoners with mental health problems	p. 150
Critical issues and themes	p. 156
Future policy and research	p. 162
Punishment and madness	p. 169
Appendix	p. 171
References	p. 173
Index	p. 193
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Punishment and Madness: Governing Prisoners with Mental Health Problems

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