Prison Suicide

What Happens Afterwards?
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0358-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 130 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Although prison suicide is a global problem, there is little knowledge about the investigations occurring after prison suicides. Addressing this gap, this book provides the first detailed case study of the investigations that follow prison suicides: using England and Wales.

Despite the large range of institutions that monitor English and Welsh prisons, suicides reached a record high in 2016, with the rate having doubled since 2012. These deaths represent the sharp end of a continuum of suffering, self-harm, despair and distress within prisons, which affects prisoners, their families and prison staff.

This book details and critiques the lengthy and expensive police, ombudsman and coroner investigations that follow prison suicides. Drawing on extensive document analysis, including analysis of over 100 Prison and Probation Ombudsman fatal incident investigations, and original semi-structured interviews with stakeholders undertaken between 2016-2017, this book provides a novel analysis of prison oversight.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomczak, Philippa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prison suicide and its aftermath

Post-suicide investigations

Experiencing investigations

Prison oversight

Über Autor(innen)

Tomczak, Philippa
Philippa Tomczak is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research and winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize for her book The Penal Voluntary Sector. She holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award and co-ordinates the international, interdisciplinary CRIMVOL research network.