Offender rehabilitation and therapeutic communities : enabling change the TC way / Alisa Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Alisa, author.

Series:

International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation

International series on desistance and rehabilitation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HM Prison Grendon.

Therapeutic communities.

Criminals--Rehabilitation.

Criminals.

Group psychoanalysis.

Prisoners--Mental health services--England.

Prisoners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of English prisons have promoted an alternative method of rehabilitation: the democratic therapeutic community (TC). These prisons offer long-term prisoners convicted of serious offences the opportunity to undertake group psychotherapy within an overtly supportive and esteem-enhancing living environment. Drawing upon original research conducted with 'residents' (prisoners) and staff at three TC prisons,

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: offender rehabilitation and therapeutic communities; Outline of the book; 1 Therapeutic communities and prisons; A short history of therapeutic communities; 'A penal institution of a special kind': the prison-based TC; The development, and varied fortunes, of TC units; Evidence of effectiveness; 2 Conducting research in prisons: tightrope walks and emotion work; Research rationale, methods, and settings; Access, observation, and 'hanging out'

Interviews and conversationsThe fieldwork experience; 3 New beginnings: commencing change the TC way; Engaging in therapy: a typology of motivation; 'Voluntary' participation and the TC alternative; First impressions; Remaining in therapy: adaptation and ambivalence; 4 Care, trust, and support; Experiences of care: attachment to officers; Experiences of care: attachment amongst residents; Experiences of care: institutional factors; 5 Responsibility, accountability, and safety; Experiences of responsibility: consultation and contribution

Experiences of responsibility: accountability and challenge6 Vulnerability, unmasking, and 'de-othering'; Experiences of vulnerability: hypermasculinity deconstructed; Experiences of 'de-othering': sexual offenders at Grendon; Hypermasculinity revisited: the hierarchy of offending reconsidered; 7 Pursuing change the TC way and beyond; Desistance in process: proceed with caution; The prison-based TC: 'different', but underused and undervalued; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-23391-1

0-203-10112-X

1-283-84477-X

1-136-23392-X

9780203101124

OCLC:

821174168