RT Article
T1 Confronting the Disabling Effects of Imprisonment: Toward Prehabilitation
JF Social justice
VO 45
IS 1
SP 27
OP 55
A1 Johns, Diana
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747154253
AB Harm is embedded in every aspect of the prison: from its inception as an institution of punishment and correction to the deprivations of prison and post-prison life. Recognizing that penal harms militate against prisons' rehabilitative aim and capacity, this article applies a therapeutic justice lens to argue for prehabilitation as a means of strengthening communities, protecting against criminogenic conditions and the disabling effects of imprisonment, and ultimately reducing the reliance on imprisonment as a supposed crime-reduction strategy. This article explores two conceptualizations of the prison: in terms of violence and of health. These different conceptualizations illustrate the various ways in which penal harms may be understood as disabling, and they locate the prison on a continuum of which violence and health are intertwined components.
K1 Mental health of prisoners
K1 Prisoners' health
K1 Recidivism
K1 Social conditions of ex-convicts
K1 Poor communities
K1 Deinstitutionalization of prisoners
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Disadvantaged environment