Dear Rachael
I strongly encourage you to post your request on the H-Medical
Anthropology listserve as well
as I imagine the members of the list can provide you with some
valuable resources and/or references.
Here's their info:
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Best of luck
Sincerely
Amy H. Gardner, MD, MPH, PhD
Medical Anthropologist and Iyanifa
Independent scholar, educator, healer and consultant
On 11/16/11, Rachael Dobson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I would like to ask if members of this list can offer guidance regarding
> 'containment as care' narratives, which have been used by authorities
> (statutory/non-statutory, policy makers, practitioners in managerial and
> front-line positions, etc) to legitimate the institutionalisation of
> disabled people.
>
> - Some background and context -
>
> I am undertaking a literature review for a paper that explores the
> possibilities of 'care' in criminal justice settings.
>
> The paper considers the practitioner/client relationship in criminal justice
> settings (specifically in probation and prison environments) and explores
> balances of care and control in these interactions. The paper connects to a
> research project where we are researching male offenders' mental and
> physical ill-health in prison environments and clients' experiences of pain.
>
> There are two clear problems with the research:
>
> 1. Prisons have been identified as 'warehousing' people who are assessed and
> classified as having mental ill-health problems. To identify prisons as
> spaces of 'care' in this context is problematic.
>
> 2. Moreover, there are dominant criminal justice practitioner narratives
> similar to those across welfare domains that 'work with' so-called
> vulnerable groups (e.g., homelessness, disability), which make claims about
> institutions as caring spaces; 'containment as care'.
>
>
> I would like to discuss these substantive themes in the paper that I am
> currently writing. If anyone can think of references in the disability
> studies literature that critique the 'containment as care' narrative, or has
> any thoughts on this subject in general terms, I would be extremely
> grateful.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rachael
>
> Dr Rachael Dobson
> Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime
> University of Leeds
>
>
>
>
>
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