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The role of post-se...
The role of post-secondary education among ex-inmates living crime-free
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Gillies, R. (author)
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Carroll, A. (author)
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Swabey, Karen (author)
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Pullen, D. (author)
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Fluck, Andrew (author)
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- Yu, Jeong Jin (author)
- University of Tasmania, Hobart
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- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2014
- 2014
- English.
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In: Aare Conference Proceedings. - : Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
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Abstract
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- Post-secondary education is claimed to have long-term life benefits for all individuals. However, little is known in terms of how post-secondary education assists ex-inmates to live crime-free. The aim of the present study was to explore how post-secondary education independently and directly came to assist ex-inmates to live crime-free. Participants (n=20) in the study were male ex-inmates living crime-free. Comprehensive education-related information in terms of school experiences, learning trajectories and educational history/background was collected for each of the participants. The study found that participants (20%) who continued post-secondary post-prison education (i.e. independent of prison education programs) not only remained crime-free but had a positive pathway post-release. Gaining post-secondary qualifications appeared to position ex-inmates in a socially cultured academic environment away from anti-social and negative at-risk communities directly assisting them to live crime-free. Consequently post-secondary education appears to reposition ex-inmates into a crime-free post-prison pathway. Hence, prison education (i.e. education programs delivered in prison) for inmates should be organized and/or facilitated toward post-secondary education with a multifaceted lifelong learning pathways.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)
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- vet (subject category)
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