Abstract
Addressing ethical issues in prison psychiatry – on a global scale as well as in national perspectives and concerning special problems (see Part II) – goes along with a more general discussion of ethics in psychiatry and in the prison system. Focusing on psychiatric problems in prisons and with prisoners (rather than criminal law problems in psychiatry and with patients), ethical issues in the prison system are of major interest. Confronted with extreme ethical and professional conflicts there may be no way out than the way out of the system: Resigning rather than resignation, opposition rather than pragmatism. However, this chapter aims to highlight areas of good practice in prison psychiatry rather than further cultivate frontlines.
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Pollähne, H. (2013). Ethics Within the Prison System. In: Konrad, N., Völlm, B., Weisstub, D. (eds) Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0086-4_2
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