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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stevens, Alisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:International series on desistance and rehabilitation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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, Offender Rehabilitat.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9781136233920
113623392X