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Mental Health, Crime and Justice

Author: Samantha Weston; Julie Trebilcock
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031833892
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
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Mental Health, Crime and Justice brings together original and state of the art contributions from theoretical, empirical, and policy-related scholarship concerned with the ways people with mental health illnesses are understood, 'managed', 'controlled' and responded to. Drawing on critical scholarship from a variety of disciplines, the collection pays careful attention to the controversial relationship between mental health and crime, as well as key issues relating to justice and social harm. It presents a synthesis of discipline-specific approaches, from law, psychiatry, sociology, and criminology, but will also bridge together developments in both theory and practice.

The book explores the relationship between mental health and crime by deconstructing and analysing two important facets of the justice system: (1) the various ways in which people with mental disorder navigate and are navigated through the criminal justice (and forensic mental health) system(s); and (2) how so called 'problematised populations' are governed, with a particular emphasis on mental health as an unfolding dimension of social harm.

Unique to this volume, well-rehearsed debates are cross-examined with contemporary critiques about social harm and justice. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of violence to include 'gendered', 'structural', and 'systemic', this book provides a nuanced insight that exposes the controversial relationship that is said to exist between mental health and crime. The collection seeks to highlight the harm and injustice that people with mental health disorders are subject to when interacting with the criminal justice system.

.- Introduction.

SECTION I: POLICY AND PRACTICE AT THE INTERSECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

.- Chapter 1: Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion: An assessment of policy in practice

Jo Wells, Bournemouth University.

.- Chapter 2: . "A complete gamechanger": the direct impact of COVID-19 on the policing response to 'vulnerability'

Laura Briody, Sam Weston (Keele University), Sandra Walklate (University Of Liverpool).

.- Chapter 3: The Philosophies and Models of Prison Mental Healthcare in England & Wales: outside inside

Wendy Dyer (Northumbria University).

.- Chapter 4: The Need for Practicable Normative Rights-Based Practice in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services

Sarah Markham (Kings College London).

.- Chapter 5: Processes of institutionalization and exclusion of mentally ill offenders. The Italian case

Daniela Ronco And Giovanni Torrente (University Of Torino).

.- Chapter 6: Controlling or Caring? Theories and practices of (neo)institutionalization into a deinstitutionalised country

Perla Arianna Allegri and Michele Miravalle (University of Torino).

.- Chapter 7: The Penrose Hypothesis and the era of mass incarceration

Ian Cummins (University Of Salford).

.- Chapter 8: The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway in England and Wales: Progress, politics, and parole

Julie Trebilcock (Brunel University London).

SECTION II: MENTAL HEALTH AS AN UNFOLDING DIMENSION OF SOCIAL HARM: THE GOVERNANCE OF 'PROBLEMATISED' POPULATIONS.

.- Chapter 9: Challenging the governance paradigm for Women's mental health: from risk to resilience

Rebecca Gomm (University of Roehampton).

.- Chapter 10: The military as a continuation site of social harm

Hannah Wilkinson, University of Nottingham.

.- Chapter 11: Tainted Police Officers, Mental Health and Occupational Hesitancy

John McDaniel (University of Wolverhampton).

.- Chapter 12: Mental health, criminal records and disclosure

Andrew Henley (University of Nottingham).

.- Chapter 13: Exploring the boundary between harm and criminalization of behaviours in the digital world

Lauren Doyle (University of Sunderland).

.- Chapter 14: 'If I wasn't on drugs or I didn't take anything, I wouldn't be here. They make me feel that fucking bad': An exploration of the everyday lives of people who use drugs coping with stigma as social harm

Michelle Addison (Durham University).

.- Chapter 15: Watching, Waiting, and Wondering: Re-examining the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Violence

Helena Gosling, Tracie Hamel, Janet Jamieson and William McGowan (Liverpool John Moores University).

.- Chapter 16: Terrorism, Radicalisation and Mental Health: Unravelling the connections and illuminating the contradictions

Samantha Weston (Keel University) and Gabe Mythen (University of Liverpool).

.- Conclusion: Understanding mental health through the lens of social harm and justice