The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and backdrop to the book is the shift to 'late modernity', which, since the 1970s has seen massive structural change in most Western societies, affecting the social, economic and cultural spheres, as well as the field of crime and punishment. This book investigates whether these profound transformations have also led to a reconfiguring of responses to mentally vulnerable offenders who end up in prison. Specifically, it explores how...

The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. It draws on primary research carried out by the author, who combines and synthesizes different forms of analysis to create a novel approach to socio-historical research.