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Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison

Fitzpatrick, C, Hunter, K, Shaw, J and Staines, J (2022) Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison. Criminology and Criminal Justice. ISSN 1466-8025

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Abstract

Self-harm incidents in custody in England and Wales recently reached a record high, increasing particularly in women’s establishments. This article explores experiences of self-harm by drawing on interviews with care-experienced women in prison in England. Using prior care experience as the underlying thread enables us to explore this topic through a different lens. Considering the functions of self-harm that women described, including the communication, alleviation and ending of pain, highlights the painful lives of those experiencing both state care and control institutions. This reveals that women have often been failed across different systems, sometimes with devastating consequences. Urgent attention must be paid to the system failures affecting those previously deemed by the state to require welfare and protection.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Care-experienced; Criminology & Penology; imprisoned women; RISK; self-harm; Social Sciences; system-failures; trauma; Social Sciences; Criminology & Penology; Care-experienced; imprisoned women; self-harm; system-failures; trauma; RISK; 1602 Criminology; 1801 Law; Criminology
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV7231 Criminal Justice Administrations
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV8301 Penology. Prisons. Corrections
Divisions: Justice Studies (from Sep 19)
Publisher: SAGE Publications
SWORD Depositor: A Symplectic
Date Deposited: 13 Jan 2023 12:49
Last Modified: 13 Jan 2023 13:00
DOI or ID number: 10.1177/17488958211067914
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/18633
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