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BL
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1038669
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b793039
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| Main Entry
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Seddon, Toby.
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| Title & Author
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Punishment and madness : : governing prisoners with mental health problems /\ Toby Seddon.
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| Publication Statement
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York :: Glass House Book/Routledge-Cavendish,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 198 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203945379
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: 9780203945377
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190438563X
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1904385907
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9781904385639
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9781904385905
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : punishment, prisons and madness -- A brief history of imprisoning the "mad" -- The new right and managerialism, 1980-1990 -- The Woolf report and prison reform, 1990-1993 -- Penal populism and austere institutions, 1993-1997 -- New labour and risk management, 1997-2005 -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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The author looks at the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last 20 years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity' which since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies.
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Mentally ill offenders-- Great Britain.
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Mentally ill prisoners-- Great Britain.
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Prisons-- Great Britain.
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Criminels malades mentaux-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Prisonniers malades mentaux-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Prisons-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Mentally ill offenders.
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Mentally ill prisoners.
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Prisons.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Penology.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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365/.460941
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| LC Classification
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HV8742.G72S43 2007eb
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