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Exploring the first purpose-built prison community of its kind, the HMP Dovegate Therapeutic Community, this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of this research to date, following the progress of individual prisoners´ through therapy and highlighting the key essentials for prisoners to address their motivations and criminal behaviour.

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Preface; Roland Woodward 1. Aims and Overview 2. The ´What Works´ Debate and the Fit of Prison-Based Democratic TCs 3. Controversies, Beginnings and Workings of the Dovegate TC 4. The Data 5. Personality Disorder 6. Changes over Time: The Psychometric Data 7. Experiential Perspectives from Within the TC: The Focus Groups 8. Attachments: The Multiple Sorting Task Procedure 9. After the TC: Post Residency Questionnaire, Interviews and psychometrics 10. Back in the Outside World: Case Studies of Former Residents on Release 11. Getting It: A Quantification of Long-Term Outcomes 12. Practice Issues and Research Overview

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Jennifer Brown is Visiting Professor and Co-Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics, UK and is a chartered forensic and occupational psychologist.

Sarah Miller is a Chartered Psychologist and registered Forensic Psychologist. She is currently living and working in Australia and has recently commenced a PhD at Bond University in Queensland.

Sara Northey is a Chartered Psychologist, currently working for Sussex Partnerships Secure and Forensic services at the Hellingly Centre medium secure unit, UK.

Darragh O´Neill is currently undertaking audit research into the National Health Service and is based in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at University College London, UK.

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