Introducing Forensic Democratic Therapeutic Communities

Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities: Developments in Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 7-24

  Stevens, Alisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Democratic therapeutic communities overcoming social and emotional problem, treatment programmes; Forensic democratic therapeutic communities (TC), offender management in England prisons; Grendon prison, medium secure establishment and largest TC prison; Grendon wholly or semi contained TC units, development within mainstream prisons; HMP Gartree, Leicestershire offering treatment for Gartree's life sentenced population; Living learning culture of enquiry identifying interdependent therapeutic community principles; Penal institution of special kind satisfactory dealing methods of abnormal and unusual criminal types; Prison based democratic TCs evolution and emphasis on penal resources and legitimacy; Psychiatric origins TC treatment origin and pioneers roles engineering revolution in psychiatric and social relations; Psychodynamic therapy emphasizing personal development and maladaptive protective learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886108222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661444.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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