The ‘Inside’ Story: Practitioner Perspectives on Teaching in Prison.
The status of prison educational programmes is described as ‘marginal’ ( Reuss 1999 , p.114) and prisons are portrayed in the worst terms as ‘human dustbins’ ( Parkinson 1997 , p.16). Whilst inside accounts of prison life are rare ( Scraton and Moore 2006 ) some ethnographic reports from practitione...
| Published in: | Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 512 - 529 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2008
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