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Law, Psychiatry and Women's Imprisonment

Pat Carlen · British Journal of Psychiatry · 1985

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.

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