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Prisoner education debates in Congress : elite discourse and policymaking / Mark Tim Yates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yates, Mark Tim, 1969-
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice : recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Education--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Yates examines the role of congressional debates in generating support for current prisoner education policy. He explores the 1994 Crime Bill and 2008 Second Chance Act debate transcripts to discover political stakeholders' attempts to influence and maintain social policy through the creation of legitimizing myths. These include the idea that prisoners are hopelessly flawed or that they have potential only as human capital in the marketplace. Education, when available, is often limited, narrow, and vocational. Counter-hegemonic discourse is also described as well as alternative educational pat
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Prison system in perspective
- Prisoner education
- Research lens
- The pell grant debates
- The second chance act debates
- Insights and implications
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593325299
- 1593325290
- OCLC:
- 787842795
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