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Maintaining Programme Integrity: The FOR...A Change Programme and the Resettlement of Ex-Prisoners

NCJ Number
229451
Journal
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Volume: 54 Issue: 1 Dated: February 2010 Pages: 131-140
Author(s)
Maurice Vanstone
Date Published
February 2010
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This article describes the process and results of monitoring the programme integrity of FOR...A Change, a group programme for offenders, as it was being delivered in three prisons in the United Kingdom.
Abstract
In so doing, it briefly describes the aims, structure, and theoretical orientation of the programme; explains what informed the particular approach to checking for integrity and how it was implemented; outlines the results; and finally, postulates the requisite conditions for the successful maintenance of programme integrity. (Publisher Abstract)