(Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society) 1st Edition
by Sue Read (Editor), Sotirios Santatzoglou (Editor), Anthony Wrigley (Editor)
Life is characterised by movement,
change and development, including transitions, losses and grief. People
experiencing loss must learn to accommodate it and, sometimes, relearn
new roles. Whether the offender is accommodating general loss (such as
transition), the loss of others or facing their own impending death, the
bereavement process can become a particularly complicated experience
for those involved in the criminal justice system.
Criminal
offenders may be excluded from participating in grief rituals and may
receive few explicit opportunities to talk about a loss they’ve
experienced, sometimes resulting in disenfranchised grief. Informing
thinking around assessment, care, and support procedures, this volume
seeks to bring together a range of perspectives from different
disciplines on crucial issues surrounding the impact of loss, death,
dying and bereavement for criminal offenders. The book will explore
inherent challenges and responses to the criminal justice system by
considering to what extent offenders’ loss, death, dying and bereavement
experiences have been - or should be - recognised in policy and
practice. The first section considers theoretical approaches to loss;
the next section translates these issues using professional perspectives
to explore practical applications; and the final section introduces an
offender perspective.
Through identifying challenges and
consolidating evidence, this multidisciplinary book will interest
researchers interested in loss and bereavement in vulnerable
communities, concepts of disenfranchised grief, end-of-life care and
mental healthcare in the criminal justice system.