Conclusion
Conclusion
The conclusion synthesises the different chapters by identifying the key messages and strategies running across them. It is argued that in adopting a variety of critical perspectives through which to revisit mental health in prison, the book challenges the dominant narrative of individualism and pathology. The collection furthermore provides examples of strategies designed to address both the immediate pains of imprisonment and the longer-term goal of creating equal, healthy and sustainable communities with improved mental health for all and imprisonment for none. Taken together, the critical analyses presented here suggest that we can best achieve this end by creating alliances among a diverse collection of academics, activists, prisoners and other criminalised persons, individuals with lived experience of mental health issues and practitioners.
critical perspectives; individualism; pathology; neoliberalism; alternatives to imprisonment
Kendall, Kathleen
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Mills, Alice
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2018
Kendall, Kathleen
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Mills, Alice
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Kendall, Kathleen and Mills, Alice
(2018)
Conclusion.
In,
Mills, Alice and Kendall, Kathleen
(eds.)
Mental Health in Prisons: Critical Perspectives on Treatment and Confinement.
(Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)
Palgrave Macmillan.
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94090-8).
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The conclusion synthesises the different chapters by identifying the key messages and strategies running across them. It is argued that in adopting a variety of critical perspectives through which to revisit mental health in prison, the book challenges the dominant narrative of individualism and pathology. The collection furthermore provides examples of strategies designed to address both the immediate pains of imprisonment and the longer-term goal of creating equal, healthy and sustainable communities with improved mental health for all and imprisonment for none. Taken together, the critical analyses presented here suggest that we can best achieve this end by creating alliances among a diverse collection of academics, activists, prisoners and other criminalised persons, individuals with lived experience of mental health issues and practitioners.
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Published date: 2018
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critical perspectives; individualism; pathology; neoliberalism; alternatives to imprisonment
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Alice Mills
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Alice Mills
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Kathleen Kendall
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