This book traces the origins and development of social work as we now know it. Providing
an ambitious synthesis of historical and international material, it explores the different faces …

Der Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über die Konzepte und empirischen Evaluationsergebnisse
zur Straftäterbehandlung seit den 1960er-Jahren. Zahlreiche Metaanalysen zeigen im …

Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article explores desistance in process
among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities. It is argued that …

Bullying in prisons can have severe consequences both for those directly involved and for
the prison regime as a whole, yet the subject has been curiously neglected in the literature …

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with
structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of …

The term 'therapeutic community'is usually used in the UK to describe small cohesive
communities where patients (often referred to as residents) have a significant involvement in …

Background: Following the lead of evidence‐based medicine, practice based on
effectiveness research has become the new gold standard of contemporary public policy …

Forensic psychology is a young discipline with little over a century of history. The application
of psychology to prisons emerged early on from a general advocacy of the value of …

Simple core statements of the therapeutic community as a treatment modality are given,
including a “living-learning situation” and “culture of enquiry.” Applications are described in …

This paper contrasts the American TC model with that of the United Kingdom, presents an
overview and history from 1965 to the present of Therapeutic Community (TC) treatment as …