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Product Description: How can we solve the re-entry challenge and ensure that incarcerated individuals and those under community supervision become productive members of society? Although there is no one answer, a growing body of evidence shows that providing offenders with education and training increases their employment opportunities, addresses their cognitive deficits, and helps reduce their likelihood of recidivating...read more
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9781626181977 | Nova Science Pub Inc, May 1, 2013, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: How can we solve the re-entry challenge and ensure that incarcerated individuals and those under community supervision become productive members of society?
Product Description: 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...read more
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9781409409939 | Ashgate Pub Co, September 28, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9781623610968 | Simon & Schuster, September 4, 2012, cover price $14.95
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9780757307829 | 1 edition (Hci, July 1, 2009), cover price $14.95
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9781433101755 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 2007, cover price $37.95
Product Description: America's two million incarcerated men, women, and youth live in a hidden, isolated world filled with depression, anxiety, hostility, and violence. But the nation's soaring prison population has not been forgotten by a dedicated network of visual artists, writers, poets, dancers, musicians, and actors who teach the arts in correctional settings...read more
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9781555535698 | Northeastern Univ Pr, March 13, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: America's two million incarcerated men, women, and youth live in a hidden, isolated world filled with depression, anxiety, hostility, and violence.
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9781555535681 | Northeastern Univ Pr, March 13, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: America's two million incarcerated men, women, and youth live in a hidden, isolated world filled with depression, anxiety, hostility, and violence.
Presents a collection of stories about prisoners who have turned their lives around to become productive members of society.
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9781558748361 | Hci, March 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of stories about prisoners who have turned their lives around to become productive members of society.
Product Description: Can individuals be reformed or rehabilitated in the prison? A persistent body of work indicates that rehabilitation and/or reformation through incarceration is illusory. Exceptions, according to this view, are the result of accident, not design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780802048110 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $90.00
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9780802083500 | Univ of Toronto Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Can individuals be reformed or rehabilitated in the prison?
Product Description: This critical perspective on prison education is a marked departure from a literature dominated by descriptions of the criminal mind and correctional education strategies to cure it. Davidson's contributors are prisoners or former prisoners who finished their schooling in prison, some taking advanced degrees, or social scientists who taught in prisons but are not professional correctional educators...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780897893473 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1995, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This critical perspective on prison education is a marked departure from a literature dominated by descriptions of the criminal mind and correctional education strategies to cure it.
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9780897894265, titled "Schooling in a Total Institution: Critical Perspectives on Prison Education" | Praeger Pub Text, April 30, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This critical perspective on prison education is a marked departure from a literature dominated by descriptions of the criminal mind and correctional education strategies to cure it.
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9780398025205 | Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd, June 1, 1973, cover price $49.00
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