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 .
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