Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviours at HMP Grendon

Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities: Developments in Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 265-280

  Rivlin, Adrienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grendon's SIB rates and potentially distressing factors in prison regimes; Increasing SIB and suicidal rates in prisons pessimism, low self esteem, anger and frustration; Inmate inmate relationships fully engaging therapy programme; Knit community in Grendon reduced bullying and victimisation rates; Link between prison SIBs problems related with family and friends; Prison suicide and SIBs risk factors bullying, loneliness, boredom, hopelessness; Staff inmate relationships high level emotional support, reduced SIBs in inmates; Suicidal rate in Grendon male prisoners and men in normal population comparison; Suicide and self injurious behaviours (SIBs) at HMP Grendon

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EID: 84876149824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661444.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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