The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

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...

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Authors: Van der Meulen, Emily 1977- (Author) ; Omstead, Jackie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: The prison journal
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-122
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
community arts
evaluations research
Women prisoners
arts-based programming