Overview
- Uses a range of social science methodologies to illuminate different aspects of prisoner and prison officer health
- Charts people’s health and wellbeing as they move through the criminal justice system
- Draws on perspectives from academics and practitioners
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings. Prison contexts often have profound implications for the health of the people who live and work within them. Despite these settings often housing people from extremely disadvantaged and deprived communities, many with multiple and complex health needs, health research is generally neglected within both criminology and medical sociology. Through the fourteen chapters of this book, a range of issues emerge that the authors of each contribution reflect upon. The ethical concerns that emerge as a consequence of undertaking prison health research are not ignored, indeed these lie at the heart of this book and resonate across all the chapters. Foregrounding these issues necessarily forms a significant focus of this introductory chapter.
Alongside explicitly considering emerging ethicalissues, our contributing authors also have considered diverse aspects of innovation in research methodologies within the context of prison health research. Many of the chapters are innovative through the methodologies that were used, often adapting and utilising research methods rarely used within prison settings. The book brings together chapters from students, scholars, practitioners and service users from a range of disciplines (including medical sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, psychology and public health).
Reviews
“The book is successful in its aims and provides a strong insight into practices and experiences relating to both physical and mental health in prison. … Ultimately, this volume is certainly a strong starting point for discussion on health research within prison settings and equips academics, practitioners and students with the tools and knowledge to pursue further work in this area.” (Megan Georgiou, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 61 (2), March, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rosie Meek is the Head of the School of Law and leads a team of prison researchers at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is a chartered psychologist and prison researcher, conducting quantitative and qualitative research.
James Woodall is Reader and also Head of Subject in Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He investigates how values central to health promotion are applied to the context of imprisonment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research
Book Subtitle: Methods, Issues and Innovations
Editors: Matthew Maycock, Rosie Meek, James Woodall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46401-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46400-4Published: 01 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46403-5Published: 02 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46401-1Published: 30 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 336
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Human Rights and Crime , Research Methods in Criminology, Public Health, Medical Sociology, Health Psychology