Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners

Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for reparative and restorative rehabilitation.

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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.

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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