Abstract
Book abstract: This unique collection of research and practice papers highlight HMP Grendon’s groundbreaking and sustained contribution to our understanding of the role therapeutic communities have in effective interventions with offenders.
- Reveals the history and research behind HMP Grendon, one of the first prisons to develop therapeutic communities
- Combines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research papers, coupled with historical, theoretical and practice commentary
- Features quantitative research based on unusually complete and extensive records, collected over an extended period and stored in Grendon’s database
- Provides an international perspective with prominent figures from America and Holland
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities: Developments in Research and Practice |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470990575 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2010 |