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A Modified Therapeutic Community: Reducing Violence In A Medium Security Prison, Lee Maglinger
A Modified Therapeutic Community: Reducing Violence In A Medium Security Prison, Lee Maglinger
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This study explores the impact a modified therapeutic community has on institutional disorder. Treatment programs are normally evaluated by their ability to prevent recidivism and relapse. This study examines the efficacy of a modified therapeutic community in reducing the number and severity of write-ups of its clients in a medium security male prison. The study describes research findings regarding the relationship between the write-ups of clients in a modified therapeutic community compared with the write-ups of inmates in a non-treatment unit. To carry out this study, the author reviewed the write-up records from the treatment program and a non-treatment unit …