Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities

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Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities is written by Richard Shuker and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0470661437 (ISBN 10) and 9780470661437 (ISBN 13).

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