Painful lives

Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12900048
AutoresClaire Fitzpatrick (0000-0003-3000-1664, Lancaster University, autor correspondente), Katie Hunter (0000-0001-7811-5666, Lancaster University), Julie Shaw (0000-0002-0192-178X, Liverpool John Moores University), Jo Staines (0000-0001-7285-496X, University of Bristol)
Ano2022
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas348-365
Data de publicação2022-01-17
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCriminology & Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1748-8958 • E-ISSN: 1748-8966
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17488958211067914
OpenAlexW4205209622
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas27

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

Criminology · Harm · Prison · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology