Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- 3.1 Child sexual abuse
- 3.2 Clinical relevance of restorative justice
- 3.3 Crisis negotiation
- 3.4 Parenting programmes
- 3.5 Preventing delinquency and later criminal offending
- 3.6 Programmed interventions for offenders
- 3.7 Rediscovering recovery and rehabilitation in drug and alcohol services
- 3.8 Rehabilitation of offenders
- 3.9 Risk management
- 3.10 Suicide in prisons
- 3.11 Therapeutic communities
- 3.12 Treatment of sexual offenders
- 3.13 Rehabilitating violent offenders
- 3.14 Victims of terrorism
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
3.11 - Therapeutic communities
from Part III - Interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- 3.1 Child sexual abuse
- 3.2 Clinical relevance of restorative justice
- 3.3 Crisis negotiation
- 3.4 Parenting programmes
- 3.5 Preventing delinquency and later criminal offending
- 3.6 Programmed interventions for offenders
- 3.7 Rediscovering recovery and rehabilitation in drug and alcohol services
- 3.8 Rehabilitation of offenders
- 3.9 Risk management
- 3.10 Suicide in prisons
- 3.11 Therapeutic communities
- 3.12 Treatment of sexual offenders
- 3.13 Rehabilitating violent offenders
- 3.14 Victims of terrorism
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Democratic therapeutic communities (DTCs) for offenders in the UK are found in both prisons and forensic psychiatric settings in high and medium security, as they represent a whole-system approach to treatment or rehabilitation. An early anthropological study attempted to summarize the operation of the DTC in four principles: democratization, permissiveness, reality confrontation and communalism. Whilst some DTCs include individual therapy, the emphasis is very much on group activity. As with TCs in the non-forensic health system, forensic TCs have a lengthy research history and, as an intervention aimed at long-term change of offenders, the TC would seem to be a promising approach. Whilst not a challenge for DTCs alone, offending rates are problematic as outcome measures: reconviction is not a wholly accurate measure of reoffending and lower rates could reflect more skilful rather than less frequent offending.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 423 - 433Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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