1st Edition
Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners Re-imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty
1. An Overview 2. Women’s Imprisonment – A History of the Present 3. Approaching Rehabilitation 4. The Prison and Rehabilitation 5. The Democratic Therapeutic Community and the Prison 6. The Therapeutic Process 7. The Experience of Therapy 8. The Gendered Operation of the Core Model for Prison DTCs 9. Supportive Elements of Feminist Therapy 10. Defending the Defensible
Biography
Elaine Player is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. In addition to two co-authored monographs with Elaine Genders, she has published work on prisons, sentencing and injustices of the criminal process, frequently focusing on their impact on women. She is Chair of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Elaine Genders is Reader in Criminology and Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Laws, UCL. She has researched and written in the fields of criminology, criminal justice and the interface between criminology and criminal law. She is co-author, with Elaine Player, of two books on imprisonment, Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison and Race Relations in Prison.
My fellow members of the Government’s recently announced Women’s Justice Board, whose primary function will be to address the distinct needs of female offenders, will find it an essential first step to acquire a copy of this new volume.
Vera Baird, DBE KC.
It is not only a unique and very substantial study of a therapeutic community for long-term women prisoners, but also a platform upon which the authors have developed an important and timely disquisition about the relations between women offenders and the state, and, unusually and notably, the duty of care which the state owes to those who offend and those whom it punishes.
Paul Rock, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics.
