Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research

This book examines the profound implications that custodial settings - including prisons, young offender institutes and immigration removal centres - can have for the health of the people who live and work within them. It discusses the issues encountered when researching health in these settings and the innovative methods required to overcome them. The multiple and complex health needs of these people, often from extremely disadvantaged and marginalised communities, is generally neglected within both criminology and medical sociology despite increasing mortality rates and the marked increase in the population of older people in these settings. This edited book explores a range of contrasting perspectives on health and health research in custodial settings, emerging methodological and ethical aspects of conducting health research in custodial settings, and a number of innovative approaches to custodial setting health research, utilising a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. It brings together chapters from students, scholars, practitioners and service users from a range of disciplines including medical sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, and public health to provide a comprehensive appraisal of an overlooked concern, and insights into both scholarship and practice.

Auteur
Matthew Maycock is Learning and Development Researcher at the Scottish Prison Service, and was Investigator Scientist at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK.
Rosie Meek is the Head of the School of Law and leads a team of prison researchers at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is a chartered psychologist and prison researcher, conducting quantitative and qualitative research.
James Woodall is Reader and also Head of Subject in Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He investigates how values central to health promotion are applied to the context of imprisonment.

Résumé

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings. Prison contexts often have profound implications for the health of the people who live and work within them. Despite these settings often housing people from extremely disadvantaged and deprived communities, many with multiple and complex health needs, health research is generally neglected within both criminology and medical sociology. Through the fourteen chapters of this book, a range of issues emerge that the authors of each contribution reflect upon. The ethical concerns that emerge as a consequence of undertaking prison health research are not ignored, indeed these lie at the heart of this book and resonate across all the chapters. Foregrounding these issues necessarily forms a significant focus of this introductory chapter.

Alongside explicitly considering emerging ethical issues, our contributing authors also have considered diverse aspects of innovation in research methodologies within the context of prison health research. Many of the chapters are innovative through the methodologies that were used, often adapting and utilising research methods rarely used within prison settings. The book brings together chapters from students, scholars, practitioners and service users from a range of disciplines (including medical sociology, medical anthropology, criminology, psychology and public health).

Contenu

Chapter One Introduction (Dr Matthew Maycock, Dr James Woodall, Prof Rosie Meek)

Chapter Two - Participatory Research In Prison: Rationale, Process And Challenges (James Woodall)

Chapter Three Promoting Health Literacy With Young Adult Men In An English Prison

(Dr Anita Mehay, Professor Rosie Meek, Professor Jane Ogden)

Chapter Four Challenges And Practicalities In Adopting Grounded Theory Methodology When Conducting Prison Research (Nasrul Ismail)

Chapter Five - The Research Experience From An Insider Perspective (Dr David Honeywell)

Chapter Six - Prisoner Experiences Of Prison Health In Scotland (Dr James Fraser) Chapter Seven: Building Health And Wellbeing In Prison: Learning From The Master Gardener Programme In A Midlands Prison. (Geraldine Brown, Elizabeth Bos, Geraldine Brady)

Chapter Eight: The 'Dead Zone' In The Stories Of People In Prison (Alan Farrier)

Chapter Nine - Evaluation And Reflections From The Use Of Implementation Science To Accommodate A Community Mental Health Awareness Programme To A Prison (Dr. David Woods And Dr. Gavin Breslin)

Chapter Ten Oral Health As A Door To Promoting Psychosocial Functioning For People In Custody: Lessons Learnt From The Development Of The Mouth Matters Intervention. (Ruth Freeman)

Chapter Eleven - Health Arts And Justice (Dr Alison Frater)

Chapter Twelve: Pregnancy In Prison (Dr Laura Abbot) Chapter Thirteen Masculinity, Doing Health, Performances Of Masculinity Within The Fit For Life Programme Delivered In Two Scottish Prisons (Dr Matt Maycock, Prof Cindy Gray, Prof Kate Hunt)

Chapter Fourteen: More Than Just A Game: The Impact Of A Prison Football Team On Physical And Social Wellbeing In A Welsh Prison. (Jamie Grundy, Professor Rosie Meek)

Index