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SUMMARY:The role of the psychologist in prisons: An historical overview - 
 Sophie Ellis (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20210302T131500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Nanna K L Kaalund
DESCRIPTION:Today\, psychologists play a pervasive role in prisons\, parti
 cularly in matters concerning long-term prisoners. They assess prisoners
 ’ risk of committing serious further harm\; deliver psychological treatm
 ent\; advise the prison on regime issues\, and on how best to work with co
 mplex individuals. For prisoners serving a sentence that involves conditio
 nal release on parole\, the crucial difference between liberty and continu
 ed confinement can rest on a psychologist’s judgement. In historical ter
 ms\, this landscape has taken shape relatively recently\, coalescing aroun
 d the turn of the century\, when psychologists’ presence in prisons sign
 ificantly increased. Based on archival data and emerging findings from int
 erviews with psychologists\, this talk will trace psychologists’ presenc
 e in prisons over the last 100 years\, the changing nature of their work\,
  and the consequences of their increased grip on the conceptualisation of 
 crimes and minds.
LOCATION:Online (ask organizers for link)
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