Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #6 - Innovation in Education - Voices from the Front Line (ACJ6-A001)

This paper explores the nature of education in prisons as a hook-for-change to catalyze desistance from crime. Drawing from personal experiences and first-hand knowledge, it highlights the nature of this subject from the inside-out, linking these personal reflections with academic analysis. As a recent graduate in criminology and a serving inmate in a Scottish prison, I analyze my own desistance process from the point of view of an aspiring scholar. This paper demonstrates how I have successfully used education to catalyze my own desistance by re-crafting my previous criminal identity to a more pro-social, academic one.

 

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