Does everyone who ends up in prison get the same kind of experience? Do all prison environments "feel" the same? Do different kinds of prison settings have a different kind of atmosphere? Why might it be useful to measure the social climate of a prison or to compare and contrast them? Are some environments more compassionate? Does the presence of psychologists or psychotherapists make a difference to how a wing is run? Is prison more effective when it involves a psychological approach?
Gareth Ross and Lucy Reading tell us about their recently published research which describes the social climate across therapeutic and non therapeutic wings in the Category B prison, HMP Gartree
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1 years ago
Thank you. We probably are now although thats a consequence of education ....
1 years ago
Hmm.. excellent focus upon men as service users thus ’vulnerability’, but of course, these will include humanities ’initiators of harm’, or the ’ hard core’. I’d suggest that this could suggest that yourselves could be ’accused’ of iddle class naivete.
4 years ago
Excellent episode
4 years ago
Great start!