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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