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Social Skills in Prison and the Community - Problem-Solving for Offenders
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Social Skills in Prison and the Community - Problem-Solving for Offenders
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners
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‘Gate fever’ is the name of a non-medical syndrome said to
infect men in prison as the date of their discharge draws near. Its
symptoms are euphoria and anxiety, mixed with irrational thinking;
and the unfailing cure of the condition is the cold douche of
reality which awaits the victim outside the prison gate. The
primary aim of this book, originally published in 1984, is to
describe and promote social-skills-based methods for helping
offenders cope better with the problems they face in the community:
finding and keeping work and accommodation, managing money and
leisure time, getting on with other people and, in some cases,
controlling their drinking or violent behaviour. Based on an
action-research project undertaken with nearly four hundred men in
Ranby and Ashwell prisons and at the Sheffield day training centre,
the book outlines the origins of the project, the design and
development of course materials, and the training of prison
officers and probation staff to administer them. It looks at the
characteristics of the men who took part in the experiment and at
their problems, and details the content and conduct of the courses
in practice. The results of the work are also reported, often in
the words of the men who made use of the methods. Overall offending
rates were not reduced but violent offenders at Ranby were less
likely to be re-convicted of violent offences after release. One of
the outcomes of the project was a model for working with offenders
which has spread to other prisons and probation areas. A final
chapter discusses the difficulties of doing innovative work in
penal establishments and makes suggestions for developing social
skills work with prisoners and probationers.
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