Dangerous and severe: process, programme, and person ; Grendon's work

In: Community, culture, and change 15

In: Community, Culture and Change Ser

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HMP Grendon hosts the UK's only prison-based therapeutic community, inhabited by around 200 residents, almost all convicted of crimes against the person, and about half of whom have killed. This is an inside account of the work, and the theory behind the work, carried out at a prison which not only exemplifies the best in prison philosophy, but also a pioneering approach to the treatment of psychopaths. Previously the Director of Therapies at Grendon, Mark Morris provides a unique insight into the work of this experimental prison regime. He tracks its history from the 1950s, and describes how

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Dangerous and severe: process, programme, and person; Grendon's work

In: Community, culture and change 15

Morris, Mark

Morris, Mark

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Grendon prison : an introduction -- Grendon's men -- Grendon's process -- Grendon's programme : models of change -- Grendon staff : clinical pluralism -- Grendon as a psychodynamic treatment -- Dilemmas in management -- Evidence and audit -- Looking forwards and DSPD.

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