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Law, Psychiatry and Women's Imprisonment

A Sociological View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Pat Carlen
Pat Carlen*
Affiliation:
Department of Law, University of Keele, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG
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Summary

This paper analyses the legal and other social conditions under which the concept of ‘psychopathic personality disorder’ continues to play a strategic part in both the repeated imprisonment of female petty offenders and in the justifications put forward for the rigidity of the disciplinary regimes in women's prisons.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 6 , June 1985 , pp. 618 - 621
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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