Ebook: Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities: Developments in Research and Practice

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 communitiesCombines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research papers, coupled with historical, theoretical and practice commentaryFeatures quantitative research based on unusually complete and extensive records, collected over an extended period and stored in Grendon’s databaseProvides an international perspective with prominent figures from America and Holland