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Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System : a Social Work Perspective.

The book examines the experiences of people with mental health problems across all stages of the Criminal Justice System.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cummins, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Northwich : Critical Publishing, 2016.
Colección:Critical Approaches to Mental Health.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Lists of Tables and Figures; Meet the Author; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Critical questions; Background to my research; Researching the CJS
  • working with the police; Appreciative inquiry as an approach; Bourdieu's bureaucratic field and habitus; The socio-legal and political context; Neo-liberalism; The penal state; Incarceration across the world; American exceptionalism; Comparing penal regimes; Social work, Advanced Marginality and the CJS; Governing through crime; The wider role of social work.
  • Social work and povertyWhy social work should play a wider role in the CJS; The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF); Mental health social work; Taking it further; 1 Key Decision Points; Critical questions; Who are 'mentally disordered offenders'?; Key decision points of the CJS; Current key issues; The impact of austerity; The role of the police; The experiences of marginalised groups in the CJS; The state of prisons in England and Wales in 2015; Rediscovering dignity: a social work perspective; Taking it further; 2 A Short History of Community Care; Critical questions.
  • Penrose and the relationship between prisons and psychiatric careDevelopment of institutional care for the mentally ill; Foucault's analysis: a brief summary; Response to the radical perspective on the rise of asylums; Psychiatry responds; The crisis in asylums; Goffman and total institutions; The politics of deinstitutionalisation; Community care as a 'moral panic'; Policy and legislative responses to the failings of community care; Conclusion; Taking it further; 3 Madness and the Criminal Justice System: Ethical Issues; Critical questions; The nature of the problem.
  • Mental illness and the problem of autonomyNagel's concept of critical scrutiny; Punishment and moral responsibility; Sentencing; Madness and punishment; Foucault: punishment and technologies of power; Foucault and the body as a site of punishment; Madness and the Courts; Sentencing under the Mental Health Act (1983); Mental health treatment requirement
  • community order; Section 37 hospital orders; Section 41 restriction orders; Section 45A hybrid orders; A short history of personality disorder; Psychopathology; The 1904 Royal Commission and the 1957 Percy Commission.
  • The 1975 Butler CommitteeThe 1992 Reed Review; Reform of the Mental Health Act (2007); Personality disorder and treatment; Conclusion; Sentenced to psychiatry?; Responsibility; Taking it further; 4 Prison Mental Health and Forensic Services; Critical questions; Health care in prisons; Women and prisons; BME women and prisons; The Corston Inquiry (2007); Mental health and women in prison; Women, self-harm and suicide in prison; Campaigning for reform; The experience of imprisonment; Male prisons; Mental health in male prisons; Suicide in male prisons; Older prisoners.