Education And Incarceration

Author : Anthony H. Normore,Brian D. Fitch
Publisher : IAP
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617357121

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Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism by Anthony H. Normore,Brian D. Fitch Pdf

Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing these populations, including the abuse and neglect that cycle through generations. When effectively addressed through education the economic burden on society is lightened and an advocacy to increase understanding engenders a humane response. When connecting education-based incarceration to leadership and social justice, several issues come to mind, beginning with the universal understanding that definitions of social justice are based on a variety of factors, like political orientation, religious background, and political and social philosophy. An increased body of researchers in educational leadership, ethics, law, sociology, corrections, law enforcement, criminal justice, and public health agree that social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the courts, but in all aspects of society. Social justice demands that people promote a just society where people have equal rights and opportunities; everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest deserves an even playing field. The intended audience for this book includes academics, national and international law enforcement agencies, and correctional institutions interested in establishing and assessing the effectiveness of an education-based incarceration program. This book can be used by educators and students interested in studying organizational leadership, correctional theory, recidivism, social and restorative justice, and education-based incarceration.

Author : Lois M. Davis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780833081322

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education by Lois M. Davis Pdf

After conducting a comprehensive literature search, the authors undertook a meta-analysis to examine the association between correctional education and reductions in recidivism, improvements in employment after release from prison, and other outcomes. The study finds that receiving correctional education while incarcerated reduces inmates' risk of recidivating and may improve their odds of obtaining employment after release from prison.

Author : Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620971239

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Liberating Minds by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Pdf

An authoritative and thought-provoking argument for offering free college in prisons—from the former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Anthony Cardenales was a stickup artist in the Bronx before spending seventeen years in prison. Today he is a senior manager at a recycling plant in Westchester, New York. He attributes his ability to turn his life around to the college degree he earned in prison. Many college-in-prison graduates achieve similar success and the positive ripple effects for their families and communities, and for the country as a whole, are dramatic. College-in-prison programs have been shown to greatly reduce recidivism. They increase post-prison employment, allowing the formerly incarcerated to better support their families and to reintegrate successfully into their communities. College programs also decrease violence within prisons, improving conditions for both correction officers and the incarcerated. Liberating Minds eloquently makes the case for these benefits and also illustrates them through the stories of formerly incarcerated college students. As the country confronts its legacy of over-incarceration, college-in-prison provides a corrective on the path back to a more democratic and humane society. “Lagemann includes intensive research, but her most powerful supporting evidence comes from the anecdotes of former prisoners who have become published poets, social workers, and nonprofit leaders.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Christopher Zoukis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780786495337

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College for Convicts by Christopher Zoukis Pdf

The United States accounts for 5 percent of the world's population, yet incarcerates about 25 percent of the world's prisoners. Examining a wealth of studies by researchers and correctional professionals, and the experience of educators, this book shows recidivism rates drop in direct correlation with the amount of education prisoners receive, and the rate drops dramatically with each additional level of education attained. Presenting a workable solution to America's mass incarceration and recidivism problems, this book demonstrates that great fiscal benefits arise when modest sums are spent educating prisoners. Educating prisoners brings a reduction in crime and social disruption, reduced domestic spending and a rise in quality of life. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Anthony J. Nocella,Priya Parmar,David Stovall
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Crime and race
ISBN : 1433123231

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From Education to Incarceration by Anthony J. Nocella,Priya Parmar,David Stovall Pdf

From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the school system's direct relationship to the juvenile justice system. The book reveals various tenets contributing to unnecessary expulsions, leaving youth vulnerable to the streets and, ultimately, behind bars.

Author : Lizbet Simmons
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520281455

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The Prison School by Lizbet Simmons Pdf

Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era -- 2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry"--3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans -- 4. The Prison School -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Author : Assoc Prof Emma Hughes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409483403

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Education in Prison by Assoc Prof Emma Hughes Pdf

The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important implications. This extended analysis of prisoner education represents a unique contribution to an under-researched field, whilst also making important and original connections between research on education in prison and the literature on adult learning in the community. Through offering crucial insights into the varied motivations and disincentives that inform prisoners' decisions to study in prison (whether it be through distance learning or prison-based classes), the reader is also able to consider factors that inform decisions to engage in a broader range of positive and constructive activities whilst in prison. These research findings provide insight into how prison culture and prison policies may impact upon rehabilitative endeavour and suggest ways in which prisons may seek to encourage constructive and/ or rehabilitative activities amongst their inhabitants if desired. Based on interviews and questionnaires completed by British adult prisoners studying through distance learning, this qualitative study offers a valuable complement and counterpart to prison education studies that focus on measuring recidivism rates. The learner-centred approach used yields a nuanced and complex understanding of the varied ways in which education in prison actually operates and is experienced, and considers the consequences of this for the students' lives. As such, the findings offer further insight into important evidence resulting from recidivism studies reviewed within the book, whilst contributing to the reemerging interest in studies of prison life and prison culture that are based on prisoner interviews.

Author : David Wilson,Anne Reuss
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781872870908

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Prison(er) Education by David Wilson,Anne Reuss Pdf

This book is a major challenge to penal policy-makers, to accept the value of education - beyond 'basic skills', at a time when regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Weaving anecdote with solid research and evaluation, the book presents a comprehensive account of education inside British prisons.

Author : Peter Williamson,Deborah Appleman
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807765487

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School, Not Jail by Peter Williamson,Deborah Appleman Pdf

"Arguing that the school-to-prison pipeline is "one of the most urgent educational issues of our time," this volume seeks to (1) examine how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools into our prisons and (2) consider what school-based educators can do to disrupt this flow and dismantle the school to prison pipeline, using examples drawn from both schools and prisons. Incorporating perspectives from both 'ends' of the pipeline, the volume provides specific strategies on curriculum, pedagogy, and disciplinary practices that can help redirect our collective efforts from carceral practices to education that will be valuable for all educators in keeping students in school and out of prison"--

Author : Erica R. Meiners,Maisha T. Winn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317978282

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Education and Incarceration by Erica R. Meiners,Maisha T. Winn Pdf

The United States of America is in possession of the largest prison population in the world, with 2.3 million people currently behind bars. This number is predominantly and disproportionately made up of communities of colour and poverty. Between 1987 and 2007, the U.S. prison population tripled; the direct result of various ‘tough on crime’ public policies. Organizers and scholars use the term prison industrial complex (PIC) to name the structure that encompasses the expanding economic and political contexts of the detention and corrections industry in the USA. The PIC is a network that sutures capital, communities and the State to a permanent punishment economy. The term ‘the PIC’ aims to capture the range of material and ideological forces that shape the growth of detention: the political and lobbying power of the corrections officers unions, the framing of prisons and jails as a growth industry in the context of deindustrialization, the production and sales of technology and security required to maintain and expand the state of incarceration, and the naturalization of isolation as a logical response to harm. Education and Incarceration highlights the significance of centering agency and autonomy, and documents scholars who work to be accountable to justice movements and communities, not simply to academic disciplines or to research. Additionally, as emerging scholars committed to challenging the PIC, these authors struggle to build multi-layered analytic and material tools for resistance within and beyond the walls of schools, jails and prisons. This book provides snapshots of practices in motion: activist scholars working to engage, to be accountable to families, communities and larger justice movements, and to build abolition democracies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Race Ethnicity and Education.

Author : Nancy A. Heitzeg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440831126

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline by Nancy A. Heitzeg Pdf

This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate—and suggests practical remedies for change. How is racism perpetuated by the education system, particularly via the "school-to-prison pipeline?" How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsically connected to the larger context of the prison industrial complex as well as the extensive and ongoing criminalization of youth of color? This book uniquely describes the system of policies and practices that racialize criminalization by routing youth of color out of school and towards prison via the school-to-prison pipeline while simultaneously medicalizing white youth for comparable behaviors. This work is the first to consider and link all of the research and data from a sociological perspective, using this information to locate racism in our educational systems; describe the rise of the so-called prison industrial complex; spotlight the concomitant expansion of the "medical-industrial complex" as an alternative for controlling the white and well-off, both adult and juveniles; and explore the significance of media in furthering the white racial frame that typically views people of color as "criminals" as an automatic response. The author also examines the racial dynamics of the school to prison pipeline as documented by rates of suspension, expulsion, and referrals to legal systems and sheds light on the comparative dynamics of the related educational social control of white and middle-class youth in the larger context of society as a whole.

Author : Lois M. Davis,Jennifer L. Steele,Robert Bozick,Malcolm V. Williams,Susan Turner,Jeremy Miles,Jessica Saunders,Paul S. Steinberg
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780833084934

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How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation by Lois M. Davis,Jennifer L. Steele,Robert Bozick,Malcolm V. Williams,Susan Turner,Jeremy Miles,Jessica Saunders,Paul S. Steinberg Pdf

Assesses the effectiveness of correctional education for both incarcerated adults and juveniles, presents the results of a survey of U.S. state correctional education directors, and offers recommendations for improving correctional education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : College attendance
ISBN : UIUC:30112105172933

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Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Earle, Rod,Mehigan, James
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447353065

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Degrees of Freedom by Earle, Rod,Mehigan, James Pdf

The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 40 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received. Offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of prison life and education in prison, the book will mark the 50th anniversary of Open University.

Author : Joe Lockard,Sherry Rankins-Robertson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815654285

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Prison Pedagogies by Joe Lockard,Sherry Rankins-Robertson Pdf

In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and teachers. However, too few write for college credit. In the dearth of well-organized higher education in US prisons, noncredit programs established by colleges and universities have served as a leading means of informal learning in these settings. Thousands of teachers have entered prisons, many teaching writing or relying on writing practices when teaching other subjects. Yet these teachers have few pedagogical resources. This groundbreaking collection of essays provides such a resource and establishes a framework upon which to develop prison writing programs. Prison Pedagogies does not champion any one prescriptive approach to writing education but instead recognizes a wide range of possibilities. Essay subjects include working-class consciousness and prison education; community and literature writing at different security levels in prisons; organized writing classes in jails and juvenile halls; cultural resistance through writing education; prison newspapers and writing archives as pedagogical resources; dialogical approaches to teaching prison writing classes; and more. The contributors within this volume share a belief that writing represents a form of intellectual and expressive self-development in prison, one whose pursuit has transformative potential.