Experiential Perspectives from within the TC: The Focus Groups

Abstract

This chapter describes how we acquired and made sense of residents’ perspectives and experiences of psychological and behavioural change during their time in the TC. We will start by outlining our rationale for using a focus group methodology and then describe how we went about setting up, conducting and analysing the discussion groups. We will then give a detailed description of our findings and reflect on how they compare with previous studies that have used experiential perspectives of prison TC residents.