Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities

Enabling Change the TC way

AvAlisa Stevens

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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, Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities provides a uniquely evocative and engaging portrayal of the TC regime. Individual chapters focus on residents’ adaptation to ‘the TC way’ of rehabilitation and imprisonment; the development of caring relationships between community members; residents’ contributions towards the safe and efficient running of their community; and the greater assimilation of sexual offenders within TCs for men, made possible in part by a lessening in ‘hypermasculinity’. By analyzing residents’ own accounts of ‘desistance in process’ in the TC, this book argues that TCs help offenders to change by enabling positive developments to their personal identity and self-narratives: to the ways in which they see themselves and their life. The radically ‘different’ penal environment allows its residents to become someone ‘different’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-03-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415635271

Utforska kategorier

Kriminalvård och straff inom Samhälle och politik

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Alisa Stevens is Lecturer in Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Kent. Her main areas of research interest are the correctional services (prisons and probation), offender rehabilitation, and desistance from crime.

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"By focusing, in depth, on the experiences of residents in therapeutic communities, Alisa Stevens has crafted an intimate account of how men come to terms with traumatic experiences and their own serious offending. The pain, turmoil, optimism and hope are captured as the men journey towards a different future. These stories reveal the potential of therapeutic communities to provide a model for an effective and humane approach to imprisonment."Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon and Springhill, UK."In Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities, Alisa Stevens provides a thorough and highly original account of the culture and dynamics of prison-based therapeutic communities. Written vividly and elegantly throughout, the book provides a vital bridge between studies of the daily life of the prison and the growing literature on identity change and desistance. It is an extremely valuable and welcome addition to both fields."Dr. Ben Crewe, Deputy Director of Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK."This scholarly, insightful and often-compelling study of therapeutic communities (TCs) makes a significant contribution to the ongoing resurgence in ethnographic studies of the modern prison."Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Therapeutic communities and prisons, 2. Conducting research in prisons: tightrope walks and emotion work, 3. New beginnings: commencing change the TC way, 4. Care, trust and support, 5. Responsibility, accountability and safety, 6. Vulnerability, unmasking and 'de-othering', 7. Pursuing change the TC way and beyond