Book contents
- Comprehensive Men’s Mental Health
- Comprehensive Men’s Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 The Developmental Context and Developmental Disorders
- Section 2 Body Image and Anxiety Disorders
- Section 3 Suicidality and Mood Disorders in Men
- Section 4 Violence, Sociopathy, and Substance Misuse in Men
- Chapter 15 The Mental Health of Men Who Offend
- Chapter 16 The ‘Mad and the Bad’ behind Bars
- Chapter 17 Domestic Violence and Men’s Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Alcohol and Substance Misuse in Men
- Section 5 Physical and Mental Health Overlap
- Section 6 Mental Health of Men in Later Life
- Index
- References
Chapter 16 - The ‘Mad and the Bad’ behind Bars
Men’s Mental Illness in Prisons
from Section 4 - Violence, Sociopathy, and Substance Misuse in Men
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
Book contents
- Comprehensive Men’s Mental Health
- Comprehensive Men’s Mental Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1 The Developmental Context and Developmental Disorders
- Section 2 Body Image and Anxiety Disorders
- Section 3 Suicidality and Mood Disorders in Men
- Section 4 Violence, Sociopathy, and Substance Misuse in Men
- Chapter 15 The Mental Health of Men Who Offend
- Chapter 16 The ‘Mad and the Bad’ behind Bars
- Chapter 17 Domestic Violence and Men’s Mental Health
- Chapter 18 Alcohol and Substance Misuse in Men
- Section 5 Physical and Mental Health Overlap
- Section 6 Mental Health of Men in Later Life
- Index
- References
Summary
If an eighteenth-century social reformer were to find himself suddenly in the late twentieth century and surveyed the characteristics of inmates in prison, he could be forgiven for thinking that nothing had happened regarding criminal justice policy in the intervening two-and-a-half centuries. The initial Western practice of housing the criminal and the mentally infirm under the same roof seems to have come full circle; before the 1750s, ‘Houses of Correction’ served to aggregate all manner of inconvenient folk: debtors, street-walkers, the mentally ill, criminal offenders. Since that time, an array of professions and academic disciplines – psychiatry, criminology, penology – parcelled out ‘the mad and the bad’ into separate populations, the better for study and treatment.
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