Overview

Although prison suicide is a global problem,there is little knowledge about the investigations occurring after prisonsuicides. Addressing this gap, this book provides the first detailed case studyof the investigations that follow prison suicides: using England and Wales. Despite the large range of institutions thatmonitor English and Welsh prisons, suicides reached a record high in 2016, withthe rate having doubled since 2012. These deaths represent the sharp end of acontinuum of suffering, self-harm, despair and distress within prisons, whichaffects prisoners, their families and prison staff. This book details and critiques the lengthyand expensive police, ombudsman and coroner investigations that follow prisonsuicides. Drawing on extensive document analysis, including analysis of over100 Prison and Probation Ombudsman fatal incident investigations, and originalsemi-structured interviews with stakeholders undertaken between 2016-2017, thisbook provides a novel analysis of prison oversight.

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''A very urgent and important topic, this excellent study shows the wider impact of self-inflicted deaths in prison and deserves to be widely read''. Philip Leach EHRAC, Middlesex University

""Throughout this well researched and informative work Tomczak has a clear message for those working within this field: ‘prison suicide is a substantially, although not entirely, preventable crisis'."" Prison Service Journal

Author Information

Philippa Tomczak is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham School of Sociology. She won the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize for her monograph The Penal Voluntary Sector. She co- ordinates the international, interdisciplinary CRIMVOL research network.

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