TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Hearing Voices': Punishing Women's Mental Ill Health in Northern Ireland's Jails
AU - Scraton, P.
AU - Moore, Linda
PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - Informed by primary interviews and observational research conducted by the authors with womenprisoners in Northern Ireland, this article focuses on prison as an institutional manifestation ofwomen’s powerlessness and vulnerability, particularly those enduring mental ill-health. It contextualises their experiences within continua of violence and ‘unsafety’. It also considers official responses to critical inspection reports and those of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission based on the authors’ research findings. Finally, the primary research demonstrates that three decades on from publication the first critical analyses of women’s imprisonment, the conditions of gendered marginalisation, medicalisation and punishment remain. This is brought into stark relief in the punitive regimes imposed on those most vulnerable through mental ill-health.
AB - Informed by primary interviews and observational research conducted by the authors with womenprisoners in Northern Ireland, this article focuses on prison as an institutional manifestation ofwomen’s powerlessness and vulnerability, particularly those enduring mental ill-health. It contextualises their experiences within continua of violence and ‘unsafety’. It also considers official responses to critical inspection reports and those of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission based on the authors’ research findings. Finally, the primary research demonstrates that three decades on from publication the first critical analyses of women’s imprisonment, the conditions of gendered marginalisation, medicalisation and punishment remain. This is brought into stark relief in the punitive regimes imposed on those most vulnerable through mental ill-health.
U2 - 10.1080/17449200903115813
DO - 10.1080/17449200903115813
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 153
EP - 165
JO - International Journal of Prisoner Health
JF - International Journal of Prisoner Health
SN - 1744-9200
IS - 3
ER -