Offender rehabilitation and therapeutic communities enabling change the TC way
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 pris...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. :
Routledge
2013.
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| Colección: | International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798263106719 |
| Sumario: | 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, |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136233913 9780203101124 9781283844772 9781136233920 |
