International journal of prisoner health
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Int J Prison Health · Dec 2019
Prisoners' ambivalent sexism and domestic violence: a narrative study.
Gender inequality and sexism are often at the root of domestic violence against women and children, with both serving to justify male domination. This runs in parallel with mother-blaming bias, which constitutes a pervasive common sense and scientific error derived from the myth of the good and the bad mother, characterising a large part of studies on deviance. The purpose of this paper is to consider the possible role of sexism in prisoners' deviant biographies; for this, the authors considered the role of the mother in the biographies of prisoners, and the results lend support to the idea that mother-blaming is a serious fallacy. Starting from a critical psychology point of view and following the retrospective methodology, the authors interviewed 22 drug-addicted prisoners through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) regarding their biographies and their relationships with parents and partners. ⋯ The paper considers some cogent issues inherent to ambivalent sexism that pervades prisoners' aspirations for their future.
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Int J Prison Health · Dec 2019
Access to a quality healthcare among prisoners - perspectives of health providers of a prison infirmary, Ghana.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of health system factors on access to a quality healthcare among prisoners in Ghana. ⋯ This is one of few studies conducted on male only prisoners/prison in the context of Ghana. It recommends the need for an integrated approach to ensure that the entire healthcare system achieves set objectives in response to the primary healthcare concept.