Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System

Sue Read of Professor of Learning Disability Nursing and Chair of the Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group at Keele University, UK.Sotirios Santatzoglou is Teaching Fellow in Law at Keele University, UK.Anthony Wrigley is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at Keele University’s Centre for Professional Ethics, UK.

• SECTION I: Appreciating dimensions of loss, death, dying and bereavement1. Disenfranchised communities. 2. Death, dying and maintaining hope: ethical tensions and responsibilities in the prison setting. 3. ‘Sympathy to the offender’: The Hobbesian account and the sympathy to the offender as an issue in end of life care PART A. 4. Loss at the end of life: Palliative care in prisons. 5. Deaths in sites of state confinement: A continuum of routine violence and terror. 6. Civil and social death: Criminalisation and the loss of the self. SECTION II: Professional development of bereavement and end of life practice. 7. Bereavement and loss at the sentencing stage. 8. Criminal justice context and voluntary bereavement support. 9. ‘Sympathy to the offender’: The Hobbesian account and the sympathy to the offender as an issue in end of life care PART B. 10. Working in the shadows: Reflections on counselling in prison and hospice settings. 11. The Evolution of Change: Factors involved in the design and delivery of a therapeutic service within the confines of a custodial setting. 12. Offenders and the challenges of palliative care in the community setting. SECTION III: Insights to inform reflections for ongoing support13. Sorrow, loss and the transition of chronic disease to end of life care in prisons. 14. The impact of loss on mental health: Implications for practice. 15. Mourning in custody: Dealing with sudden death.16. Freedom to grieve: a child and parent perspective. 17. Beyond loss of liberty: How loss, bereavement and grief can affect young men’s prison journeys. 18. Grief, chaplaincy and the non-religious prisoner.