Secure Lives

The Meaning and Importance of Culture in Secure Hospital Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-964092-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Though institutional care for people suffering from mental illness was phased out in the last century, mentally disordered offenders remain the exception to this rule. The numbers detained in medium secure care have increased and new initiatives in high secure care have created specialist facilities for individuals thought to be particularly dangerous to other people. This means that the nature of institutional life, and in particular the balance between continuing
detention for its own sake and care and treatment designed to allow for discharge to a more normal life in the community, should continue to pre-occupy us.

Secure Lives is a unique study of life in a high security hospital, based on original research material obtained in the mid 1990s. Compelling personal accounts from staff and patients, as well as case study material, illustrate the complex culture of a high security hospital. The book explores the complex relationship that exists between staff and patients, the social hierarchy, and life amongst potentially dangerous and mentally ill individuals. Though there are many texts on forensic
psychiatry in practice, this book provides a first-hand account of life in an environment never seen by those outside its walls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartlett, Annie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Resozialisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Über Autor(innen)

Annie Bartlett is Professor of Offender Health Care at St Georges, University of London. She is an experienced university teacher and researcher with a background in Social Anthropology. She has published extensively on social exclusion and mental health. She has been a consultant in Forensic Psychiatry for twenty years, and currently works clinically in CNWL NHS Foundation Trust.