Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners - Re-Imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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 monograhs with Elaine Genders, she has published work on prisons, sentencing and the criminal justice 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 in the Law Faculty, University College, London. She has published research on prisons, including two co-authored books with Elaine Player: Grendon: A study of a therapeutic prison and Race Relations in Prison.

Product details

• Authors: Genders Elaine, Elaine Genders Player, Player Elaine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032948614
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294861-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Psychology, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminal justice law