Abstract
Abstract: Drawing on a focused ethnographic study at HMP Grendon, this article examines how the notion of ‘risk’ enters into therapeutic community (TC) practice. The development and interpretation of risk are placed in the context of Grendon's history and relationship to the prison service of England and Wales, and prisoner and staff responses to risk assessment are described. Comparison with the ‘dead end’ of risk avoidance in the US supermax model leads to the suggestion that at Grendon the category of risk itself undergoes change as a result of the TC's unique relationship to prison culture.
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