Prison Education and Desistance: Changing Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367433864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 242 str.

Geraldine Cleere

Opis

This book explores prisoners’ experiences of prison education and investigates whether participation in education contributes to an offender’s ability to desist from crime and increases social capital levels. It is essential reading for all those engaged with penology, desistance, rehabilitation, and the sociology of education.

O autorze

Geraldine Cleere is a lecturer in Law and Criminology at Waterford Institute of Technology. She is an active member of various research groups and networks related to her research interests that include prison education, desistance, prison officer education and role development, social and prison-based capital and prison law.