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Over nearly six decades in prison, therapeutic communities (TCs) have waxed and waned in California. While there have been dramatic and demonstrable sucess with some of the most intractable populations in California prisons, the TC model has met substantial challenges, both bureaucratic and political. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

This is a six-decade review of in-prison TCs in California based both on the research literature and from personal experience over 30 years providing both in-prison and community based TCs in California.

Despite well-documented success reducing the recidivism of violent offenders in California prisons (which is now the bulk of the population), the government has ignored the success of well implemented in-prison TCs, and has implemented a CBT model which has recently been documented to have been ineffective in reducing recidivism. The State is now at a crossroads.

Documented research findings of success do not necessarily result in the implementation of the model.

There is evidence that violent felons are amenable to treatment.

Public concern over the return of violent felons from prison can be ameliorated by the evidence of the effectiveness of TC treatment in prison.

There is no other publication which captures the narrative of the TC in California prisons over six decades.

This research article investigates the legal issues related to consumer co-created value (CCV) especially from the business law perspective. This study also aims to investigate how the active participation of consumers, firms and fellow consumers influences consumer CCV from the policy perspectives.

A research model has been developed to explore the connections between various constructs through an extensive examination of prior literature. There are ten hypotheses which were framed and were tested using structural equation modelling technique.

The results indicated that CCV mediates the relationship between customer satisfaction and antecedents of CCV. This has a ramification from the business law perspective. It was found that enhanced, benefit laden, experientially rich and interactive value is the key driver behind consumer participation and improving satisfaction level of the participating consumers and has policy implications.

This study examines the co-creation related issues from the business law standpoint. This study suggests that value co-creation can be used as a strategy to achieve competitive advantage by inviting active consumer participation which can be key to achieve satisfaction of consumers. Legal fraternity and policymakers can use the findings to improve value creation and delivery to their consumers.

This study holds value both for legal fraternity, researchers and business law practitioners as emergence of internet has changed the way in which banking industry used to operate and has opened vistas for the organisations to allow customers to be part of value creation and enhancing their experience and satisfaction multifield time. Therefore, management researchers and policymakers would be intrigued with processes and tools through which consumers and fellow consumers can mutually benefit and also exchange value with each other with organisations acting as catalyst to the process from policy standpoint.

Purpose – Public debates about censorship laws largely focus on their desirability and the limits set on free speech. From a historical perspective, however, the logic and contradictions inherent in these laws’ implementation, as well as their evasion, also merit attention. This chapter places at the heart of its investigation the General Communist Notification (1932) in British India which prohibited specific kinds of Communist publications from import and circulation, even more so in a context of mass anti-colonial nationalism. Methodology/Approach – Using government and intelligence agencies’ archival records, intercepted documents of the Communist Party of India, legislative debates and memoirs, this chapter illustrates the censorship of Communist literature in India at two levels: one, it sketches a broad picture of the mode and extent of the censorship of Communist literature in late colonial India (c. 1925–1947). Two, by excavating debates and processes around the treatment to be accorded to books of two British Communist writers, John Strachey and R. P. Dutt, it reveals the constraints and dilemmas of censorship of Communist literature. While doing so, it brings both Indian and British voices to the fore. Findings – This investigation provides valuable insights into the operation of laws related to specific genres of publications, provides an assessment of the success of censorship measures, and highlights the repercussions of their failure. Originality/Value – By illustrating the limited success of censorship measures, as well as the dilemmas of censors and debates among them, this chapter urges for a more nuanced and multidimensional understanding of the operation of censorship, particularly in politically fraught contexts.