8. Professor Lorna Rhodes - an anthropologist analyses HMP Grendon & Washington State Prison

2021-02-17

What can forensic psychology learn from medical and institutional anthropology? Should forensic psychology be learning from other professionals? Lorna A. Rhodes is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, where she taught medical and institutional anthropology. She is the author of Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (University of California Press 1991) and Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (University of California Press 2004). ...

What can forensic psychology learn from medical and institutional anthropology? Should forensic psychology be learning from other professionals?

Lorna A. Rhodes is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, where she taught medical and institutional anthropology. She is the author of Emptying Beds: The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit (University of California Press 1991) and Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (University of California Press 2004). She has published several articles about HMP Grendon, where she spent a month conducting research in 2008. Every working day she went to B wing therapeutic community, attending community meetings and talking with staff and residents. This conversation looks at this experience and compares it with research done at a high secure unit in a prison in Washington State.

Lorna's publications can be bought here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Lorna+rhodes+anthropology&crid=1GL6T6Q6FZG9O&sprefix=lorna+rhodes+anthropology%2Caps%2C223&ref=nb_sb_noss

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