title: Law, psychiatry and women's imprisonment. A sociological view.
abstract: This 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.
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011330:Prisons / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006113:United Kingdom; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*