Prisoners' motivations for therapeutic community treatment: in search of a "different" approach to offender rehabilitation

Offenders' motivations to undertake rehabilitative programmes are underexplored. Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article considers the reasons why prisoners apply to join a democratic therapeutic community. It identifies a typology of motivation to participate, and determines that...

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Main Author: Stevens, Alisa (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013-06.
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