Dr Laura Abbott
University of Hertfordshire
Lecturer, Health Sciences
United Kingdom
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My Publications
Pregnancy and childbirth in prison
Sociology of Health & Illness
January 2020
With a prison population of approximately 9000 women in England, it is estimated that approximately 600 pregnancies and 100 births occur annually. Despite an extensive literature on the sociology o...
Reflections on researcher departure: Closure of prison relationships in ethnographic re...
Nursing Ethics
February 2018