Former welfare clients in prison: education and self-reported learning problems
| Autor: | Anette Christine Iversen, Ole Johan Eikeland, Terje Manger, Hilde Hetland |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Prison population
education.field_of_study Sociology and Political Science Social work media_common.quotation_subject Population Prison Norwegian Criminology language.human_language Prison education Nursing Welfare system language Psychology education Welfare Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Social Work. 18:198-210 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2664 1369-1457 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13691457.2014.897219 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study is to investigate educational background, educational wishes, actual participation in prison education, and self-reported learning problems among former child welfare clients in prison. A significant concern is that prisoners' educational level is far lower than for the general population. The same concern has also been expressed regarding former child welfare clients. The question is whether prisoners with a background from the child welfare system are especially vulnerable. The survey reported in this paper addressed the entire Norwegian prison population. We distributed a questionnaire containing questions about whether the prisoner or their family had been in contact with the welfare system, educational issues such as educational background, whether they wanted to participate in prison education and actually participated, and to what extent the participants had self-reported learning problems. We also investigated whether such learning problems affected participation in prison ed... |
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