What Works in Therapeutic Prisons: Evaluating Psychological Change in Dovegate Therapeutic Community [Hardcover]

Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners' through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour.    Preface; Roland Woodward 1. Aims and Overview 2. The 'What Works' Debate and the Fit of Prison-Based Democratic TCs 3. Controversies, Beginnings and Workings of the Dovegate TC 4. The Data 5. Personality Disorder 6. Changes over Time: The Psychometric Data 7. Experiential Perspectives from Within the TC: The Focus Groups 8. Attachments: The Multiple Sorting Task Procedure 9. After the TC: Post Residency Questionnaire, Interviews and psychometrics 10. Back in the Outside World: Case Studies of Former Residents on Release 11. Getting It: A Quantification of Long-Term Outcomes 12. Practice Issues and Research Overview

'This book gives terrific practical attention to the details of describing the project, remembering its history and context, exploring its methods, and raising issues on an increasingly complex level as the book evolves. It will be welcomed by its readership.'

- Russ Immarigeon, Editor, Offender Programs Report, USA

In this unique book an account of the vision, preparation, then trials and tribulations involved in establishing the UK's first therapeutic community prison in decades forms the background to a very readable narrative of the accompanying research programme from inception to outcome. Rising to the many challenges the researchers persevered with an innovative, multimethod, longitudinal and process- (as well as outcome-) oriented strategy. What has emerged is a richly detailed, warts and all portrayal of decisions, reality and ultimate vindication, with clear lessons and implications for future pol<