Abstract
SummaryThis paper analyses the legal and other social conditions under which the concept of ‘psychopathic personality disorder’ continues to play a strategic part in both the repeated imprisonment of female petty offenders and in the justifications put forward for the rigidity of the disciplinary regimes in women's prisons.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
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