Download or read book Grendon Tales written by Ursula Smartt and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive account of the UK's first - and until recently only - therapeutic community prison that deals with some of the most serious violent and sexual offenders in the UK - based upon unprecedented access to the prison that was granted to Waterside Press and Professor Ursula Smartt of Thames Valley University UK. An innovative and acclaimed account based on one-to-one interviews with staff and inmates - and 'living with' prisoners through their daily lives.
Download or read book Murderers and Life Imprisonment written by Eric Cullen and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All about life imprisonment, the most severe sentence that can be passed in the UK and the ways in which the system tries to deal with dangerous and high-risk offenders - by a prison governor and psychologist with long experience of working with such people.
Download or read book Dangerous and Severe Process Programme and Person written by Mark Morris and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004-08-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its approaches have evolved over the decades. He explores Grendon's status as a provider of a psychological therapy, and positions its treatment process as a therapeutic community, explaining why this approach is so appropriate and effective for helping prisoners with personality disorders, and how the prison environment can help in the rehabilitation of offenders.
Download or read book Dovegate written by Eric Cullen and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A closely observed account of the UK's first private sector prison-based Therapeutic Community (TC)-a 200-bed facility.
Download or read book Prison Er Education written by David Wilson and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison(er) Education comprises key essays by leading prison education practitioners, academics and prisoners, including new work on how to evaluate the success of education within prison by Dr Ray Pawson of Leeds University, and Stephen Duguid of Simon Fraser University, Canada. A major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond basic skills, and at a time when prison regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses.
Download or read book Child Law written by Richard Powell and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the law, both civil and criminal, as it applies to children and juveniles in the UK.
Download or read book Introduction to Prisons and Imprisonment written by Nick Flynn and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1998-12-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Prison Reform Trust, and one of a series on criminal justice and the penal system, this book covers the history of imprisonment in England and Wales, prison conditions, the prison population, and regimes from reception to discharge.
Download or read book I m Still Standing written by Bob Turney and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002-06-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Bob Turney's original book about how he gave up a life of crime and became a beacon of the penal reform movement (he also wrote 'Wanted' and 'Going Straight' (with Angela Devlin) - that has been an inspiration to thousands of people faced with disadvantages and obstacles in their lives. Bob frequently visits the USA where he has been in demand as a public speaker with his messages of hope.
Download or read book Prisons and the Voluntary Sector written by Shane Bryans and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that launched the UK Prison Service initiative to involve the voluntary sector in the running of its prisons. Contains details which will enable both parties to understand what is involved, the history of voluntary work in prisons - which dates back several hundred years - and how to set about devising a scheme or promoting an idea.
Download or read book Prison Writing written by Julian Broadhead and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2000-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writing by people in prison and connected to prisons: creative and challenging - one of two special Waterside Press editions. 'A remarkable anthology which will interest everyone concerned with the fate of prisoners and anxious to see their conditions improved': Michael McMullan, Justice of the Peace. 'This fascinating and very readable collection of fact, fiction and verse is the fifteenth issue edited and produced by two probation officers from Sheffield. We are fortunate that they have found a new publisher in Waterside Press to continue giving prisoners (and others), an opportunity to do something wich all writers crave - find an audience to communicate their feelings and experiences... The contributors give deeply personal insights into the nature of their world and prove that imagination and talent are incapable of being destroyed if people are ready to develop them... This anthology deserves to be read... by everyone who is interested in new writers experimenting with the development of their talent. Each piece is different and compelling: David Underhill, The Magistrate.
Download or read book What Works in Therapeutic Prisons written by J. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Growing Out of Crime written by Andrew Rutherford and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on juvenile offenders that argues that young people need to be managed through that stage of their lives when they are growing-up: by a highly respected commentator who once taught at Harvard and who workes closely with the USA's Gerry Miller on the Massachusetts experiment when the youth institutions were closed overnight in the 1980s.
Download or read book Life Imprisonment written by Dirk van Zyl Smit and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this harsh punishment.
Download or read book Dangerousness Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders written by Karen Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerousness, Risk and the Governance of Serious Sexual and Violent Offenders is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive and user-friendly guide on dangerous offenders. It considers what a dangerous offender is and how such offenders are assessed and classified.
Download or read book Cell Mates Soul Mates written by Angela Devlin and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of relationships and bonds struck up between prisoners and outsiders - by one of the UK's leading women writers on criminal justice and with a Foreword by one of the UK's leading 'agony aunts'.
Download or read book Arkham s Masters of Horror written by Peter A. Ruber and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology, Rubert (author and advertising executive who became editor of Arkham House in 1997) probes into the firm's history and its controversial founder, August Derleth. In the 21 essays, he explores some of the myths that have surfaced since Derleth's death in 1971, the Lovecraft legacy, the circumstances surrounding the Donald Wandrei litigation, key Arkham House writers of horror and fantasy fiction, and new biographical and historical information about legendary pulp writers. He also includes 21 unusual stories by each writer that are either unpublished or have never been published in a previous Arkham House collection. The volume is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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