Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- 3.1 Child sexual abuse
- 3.2 Clinical relevance of restorative justice
- 3.3 Crisis negotiation
- 3.4 Parenting programmes
- 3.5 Preventing delinquency and later criminal offending
- 3.6 Programmed interventions for offenders
- 3.7 Rediscovering recovery and rehabilitation in drug and alcohol services
- 3.8 Rehabilitation of offenders
- 3.9 Risk management
- 3.10 Suicide in prisons
- 3.11 Therapeutic communities
- 3.12 Treatment of sexual offenders
- 3.13 Rehabilitating violent offenders
- 3.14 Victims of terrorism
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
3.10 - Suicide in prisons
from Part III - Interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- 3.1 Child sexual abuse
- 3.2 Clinical relevance of restorative justice
- 3.3 Crisis negotiation
- 3.4 Parenting programmes
- 3.5 Preventing delinquency and later criminal offending
- 3.6 Programmed interventions for offenders
- 3.7 Rediscovering recovery and rehabilitation in drug and alcohol services
- 3.8 Rehabilitation of offenders
- 3.9 Risk management
- 3.10 Suicide in prisons
- 3.11 Therapeutic communities
- 3.12 Treatment of sexual offenders
- 3.13 Rehabilitating violent offenders
- 3.14 Victims of terrorism
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
While the term 'suicide' is defined within prisons more broadly than in the community, the term of self-inflicted death (SID) is widely used in practice in prisons. This chapter looks at three particular groups of prisoners for discussing suicides in prisons: black prisoners, lifers and women prisoners. Given that the individual risk factors associated with an inflated risk of suicide correlate highly with the characteristics of criminals, it would be predicted that black prisoners who are less 'criminal' may show lower levels of risk factors for suicide. Lifers appear to have peaks and troughs with their risk of suicide linked to the points at which key decisions are made at official reviews about their futures. Data available on women prisoners show that they have lower rates of suicide than men both outside and inside prisons. The chapter also talks about interpersonal and counselling skills for working with suicidal prisoners.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 416 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010