The Forensic Psychology Podcast

What is an ideal environment for change?

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Dr. Jamie Bennett is Deputy Director for the Operational Security Group in HM Prison and Probation Service. He was previously Governor of HMP Long Lartin, a high security prison, and HMP Grendon, the only prison to operate entirely as a series of therapeutic communities. He is also Editor of the Prison Service Journal. @drjamiebennett

Richard Shuker is Head of Psychology and research at HMP Grendon. He is series editor for the book series Issues in Forensic Psychology, and specialises in therapeutic communities and risk assessment.

Their recommended reading:

• Bennett, J. and Shuker, R. (2018), "Hope, harmony and humanity: creating a positive social climate in a democratic therapeutic community prison and the implications for penal practice", Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 44-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-06-2017-0030
• Crewe, B (2021) The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison. Oxford University Press
• Haslam, Jetten, Cruwys, Dingle, & Haslam (2018). The New Psychology of Health
• Unlocking the Social Cure. Routledge.