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Author Desai, Suki

Title Surveillance Practices and Mental Health The Impact of CCTV Inside Mental Health Wards
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (173 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Surveillance Ser
Routledge Studies in Surveillance Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Surveillance Practices and Mental Health -- Background -- CCTV and the Mental Health Hospital -- CCTV and Surveillance -- Methodology -- Chapters -- Chapter 2: Theory: Surveillance Practices Inside Mental Health Hospitals -- Chapter 3: Implementing CCTV Cameras Inside Mental Health Wards -- Chapter 4: Practice Implications and CCTV Surveillance -- Chapter 5: Patient and Staff Experiences of CCTV
Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Politics of Surveillance and Mental Health -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Theory: Surveillance Practices Inside Mental Health Hospitals -- Introduction -- Background -- What Is Surveillance? -- Sovereign Power and Panoptic Power -- Pastoral Power -- Sovereign Power, Panoptic Power and Pastoral Power -- Post-Panopticon -- Surveillant Assemblage -- Big Brother and Little Sisters -- Resistance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Implementing CCTV Cameras Inside Mental Health Wards -- Introduction -- Background
The Three Research Sites and Location of CCTV Cameras -- Site 1 -- Site 2 -- Site 3 -- Drivers for CCTV Use -- Fixing Problems -- No Limits to Camera Use -- Societal Expectations -- Patient and Staff Involvement in the Decision to Implement CCTV -- CCTV in Communal Areas -- CCTV in Bedrooms -- Privacy and Dignity -- CCTV in Female Ward Areas: Gendered Surveillance -- CCTV in Communal Areas -- Blind-spots and Hot-Spots -- Zero Tolerance -- CCTV and Patient Justice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Practice Implications and CCTV Surveillance -- Introduction -- Background
Surveillance Creep -- CCTV and Difficult-To-Observe Areas -- Exposing Blind-Spots -- Expanding Blind-Spot Areas -- CCTV and Potential Offences and Allegations -- CCTV and "True View" -- Patient Aggression as a Crime -- CCTV and Difficult Situations -- Constructing a Narrative -- Creating a Safe Ward Environment -- Understanding Patient Behaviour -- CCTV and Night-Time Observation -- Using Cameras Inside Bedrooms -- Doubting the Cameras -- Overriding Consent -- Gendered Nature of Camera Use -- CCTV and Seclusion Monitoring -- The Embarrassment of Face-To-Face Looking -- Managing Racial Abuse
The Boredom of Seclusion Monitoring -- Medical Surveillance -- Depersonalising Patients -- CCTV and Staying Connected -- Being Accountable -- Managing Anxiety and Nurse Observations -- CCTV as an Extra Member of Staff -- CCTV as a Helper -- Using the Cameras for Nurse Observations -- The Cameras as (An Unreliable) Colleague -- CCTV and Peer Surveillance -- CCTV and the Negative Categorisation of Patients -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Patient and Staff Experiences of CCTV -- Introduction -- Background -- Awareness of CCTV -- Finding Out About the Cameras -- No Complaints
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Part of the Territory
Subject Psychiatry -- Great Britain
Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Television in security systems.
Psychiatric hospital care
Psychiatry
Television in security systems
Great Britain
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000515817
1000515818