Therapeutic Communities: The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities: Volume 39 Issue 1

Introduction

Gary Winship

Guest editorial

Richard Shuker, Jon Taylor

“Homeliness, hope and humour” (H3) – ingredients for creating a therapeutic milieu in prisons

Ian Williams, Gary Winship

The purpose of this paper is to build a new theoretical framework for inscribing the constituents of therapeutic community (TC) practice in prisons and other secure psychiatric…

Governing a therapeutic community prison in an age of managerialism

Jamie Bennett

Recent ethnographic research has examined the forces that shape the working lives of prison managers, in particular, the growth of managerialism, pushing in from the outside and…

Doing time on a TC: how effective are drug-free therapeutic communities in prison? A review of the literature

Laura Aslan

Therapeutic communities (TC’s) are consciously designed, living-learning environments designed to evoke social, psychological and behavioural change. The success of the…

The utility of peer-support in enhancing the treatment of incarcerated sexual offenders

Christian Perrin, Andrew Frost, Jayson Barry Ware

In the quest to maximize treatment gains, recent research has shifted focus from treatment itself to the context in which treatment takes place. Such investigations have alluded…

Gangs and groups: the impact on therapeutic processes

Geraldine Ann Akerman

The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact having been in a gang has on being in a group in a democratic therapeutic community (DTC). In particular what characteristics…

The experience of change in a Prison Therapeutic Community: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Gareth Edward Ross, Jonathan Michael Auty

Democratic Therapeutic Communities (TCs) provide an environment for offenders to work on longstanding emotional and relational problems and address their offending behaviour. The…