Grendon and the Emergence of Forensic Therapeutic Communities

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 communities * Combines a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research papers, coupled with historical, theoretical and practice commentary * Features quantitative research based on unusually complete and extensive records, collected over an extended period and stored in Grendon s database * Provides an international perspective with prominent figures from America and Holland