RT Article
T1 The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons
JF The prison journal
VO 101
IS 1
SP 102
OP 122
A1 Van der Meulen, Emily 1977-
A2 Omstead, Jackie
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750715864
AB Canadian prison-based arts and other programming are limited at best. Even the country’s Correctional Investigator, or prison-ombudsperson, has critiqued the lack of meaningful options in which prisoners can engage. Those programs that do exist tend to be focused on the logic of penal rehabilitation, with the end goal of reducing recidivism. In this article, we showcase the evaluation of a 9-week arts program in a women’s prison, the aim of which was to build community and foster artistic engagement, thus running counter to normative carceral logics.
K1 community arts
K1 evaluations research
K1 Women prisoners
K1 arts-based programming
DO 10.1177/0032885520978477