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UNINA9910794468503321 |
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Autore |
Warr Jason |
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Forensic psychologists : prisons, power, and vulnerability / / by Jason Warr (De Montfort University, UK) |
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Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-83909-960-7 |
1-83909-962-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 217 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime prevention |
Social Science - Criminology |
Crime & criminology |
United Kingdom |
Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Forensic Psychology and Her Majesty's Prison Service. -- Chapter 2: Disciplinary Capital: Forensic Psychology, Power, and Expertise. -- Chapter 3: Risk, Rehabilitation, and the Development of Forensic Psychological Services. -- Chapter 4: The Values and Perspectives of Forensic Psychologists. -- Chapter 5: Occupational Experiences of Forensic Psychologists. -- Chapter 6: Adjuncts of Penal Power. -- Chapter 7: Subalterns of Penal Power. -- Chapter 8: Gender, Sexism, and the Prison. -- Chapter 9: The Paradox of Being Vulnerable Adjuncts. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores how forensic psychology has come to inhabit a central unifying discursive presence in the life world of modern carceral institutions. Providing a sociological and qualitative account of forensic practitioner psychologists, the author looks both in, and alongside, the work of such practitioners to explore how they simultaneously occupy positions of power and vulnerability. Focusing not only on how practitioners themselves come to embody a pervasive system of disciplinary expertise, but also on how they experience other forms of |
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penal control, the book offers a novel and complete exploration of forensic psychology, the modern prison, and power. This is an accessible text for prison practitioners, criminological and sociological researchers and forensic psychologists on the nature and reality of forensic psychological practice in the contemporary prisons of England and Wales. |
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