Overview
This unique collection of research and practice papers highlight HMP Grendon?s groundbreaking and sustained contribution to our understanding of the role therapeutic communities have in effective interventions with offenders. Reveals the history and research behind HMP Grendon, one of the first prisons to develop therapeutic communities Combines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research papers, coupled with historical, theoretical and practice commentary Features quantitative research based on unusually complete and extensive records, collected over an extended period and stored in Grendon?s database Provides an international perspective with prominent figures from America and Holland
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Shuker (Grendon Prison, UK) ,
Elizabeth Sullivan (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.656kg
ISBN: 9780470990551
ISBN 10: 0470990554
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 13 April 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
?Shuker and Sullivan are to be congratulated for editing this wonderful collection of papers, not only in the year that HMP Grendon celebrates its 50th birthday, but also at a time when our prison population seems to be moving inexorably towards 100,000. This book should remind us all that positive work can be done with even the most serious offenders, and that the therapeutic community model remains the only ray of hope for those who are serious about prison reform.? ?Professor David Wilson, Birmingham City University, UK ?Grendon is a worldwide beacon of enlightened prison practice that shows a real alternative to ?making bad people worse?. This book offers valuable help for those wanting to understand ?the Grendon phenomenon?, and learn about it from several different, evidence-based viewpoints. It should provide inspiration and ideas for anybody working in a custodial setting.? ?Dr Rex Haigh, National Personality Disorder Programme, Department of Health, UK
Author Information
Richard Shuker is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Head of Psychology and Research at HMP Grendon. He is series editor for the book series Issues in Forensic Psychology and has publications in the areas of therapeutic communities, risk assessment, and treatment readiness and outcome. Elizabeth Sullivan is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bedfordshire and a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Bedfordshire and Luton NHS Partnership Mental Health Trust. Dr Sullivan was a Senior Research Officer at HMP Grendon between 2004 and 2007, during which time she expanded the qualitative research agenda.
