Preventing or inflicting risks? Carceral riskscapes and working in the spaces of mental health care
: Repo V.
Publisher: Geographical Society of Finland
: 2020
Fennia : International Journal of Geography
: 198
: 1-2
: 121
: 134
: 14
: 0015-0010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.88950
: https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/88950
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/50315203
This study participates in the discussion on risks and carceral spaces,
and furthermore, introduces the concept of carceral riskscape. Since there is a
strong, but less studied connection between risk and the carceral, this study
combines these concepts to provide a new viewpoint on the mechanisms that
create carceral spaces. Riskscapes represents spaces embedded
with risk and they are usually referred to in connection with health or
environmental hazards. The emphasis in this study is on the carceral riskscapes
that working communities face in institutional premises. The study analyses the
working culture of a geropsychiatric ward in Turku. Some of the staff members
allegedly mistreated the patients and some of the carceral practices were also
targeted at co-workers. The research is qualitative in nature and analyses
documents from the inner reports to the trial documents. The findings of the
study suggest that the relationships between staff members are significant in the
context of carceral riskscapes. Furthermore, the carceral riskscapes cause
inequalities and have influence on the well-being of the staff members as well
as the quality of care.cause inequalities and have influence
on the well-being of the staff membeas well as the quality of care.
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