scholarly journals We are more than one story: Embracing creativity and compassion through Learning Together

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-166
Author(s):  
Sarah MacLennan ◽  
Helena Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Service User ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Service Users ◽  
User Input ◽  
Learning Together

People’s experiences of the criminal justice system and, indeed, higher education are dominated by stories. We encourage service user input across the criminal justice system, and endeavour to understand the student experience in higher education, but we rarely think about how politically driven agendas reduce everything, and indeed everyone, to one experience, one identity, and ultimately, one story. Drawing upon our experience of Learning Together, we utilise the concept of storytelling to illustrate how pedagogical creativity and compassion can recast long-standing narratives about ‘service users’ and students so that new, informed stories can emerge.

Can the Penitentiary Teach the Academy How to Read?

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 643-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Bruce Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Prison Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
American Prison

As the shadow of the colossal american prison lengthens amid the encroaching nightfall of our twenty-first-century security state, it is pierced by a brilliant though flickering illumination: the literature created by those who have endured the terrors of America's walls and cells, with their unremitting surveillance, relentless brutality, and overpowering hopelessness. When I began teaching American prison literature back in 1975, there were 360,000 people incarcerated in the nation's jails and prisons. Today there are more than 2.4 million—almost twenty-five percent of all the prisoners in the world. During these thirty-three years, this country has constructed on average one new prison every week. Many states annually spend more on prisons than they do on higher education. More than five million Americans have been permanently disenfranchised because of felony convictions. More than seven million are under the direct control of the criminal-justice system. And the experience of these millions of prisoners and ex-prisoners becomes ever more integral to American culture, not just to the culture of the devastated neighborhoods where most prisoners grew up and to which they return but also to the culture of an entire society grown accustomed to omnipresent surveillance cameras, routine body and car searches, and police patrolling the corridors of high schools.

scholarly journals Resettlement after short prison sentences: What might work in England and Wales?

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-339
Author(s):  
Peter Raynor
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Voluntary Basis

One of the advertised aims of the ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ (TR) reforms in England and Wales was to extend compulsory post-custody supervision to prisoners serving short sentences who were outside the scope of existing resettlement provision. It is now well established that the arrangements introduced by TR for this group of prisoners have not been successful, having delivered high and often unmanageable caseloads, little help to service users and a greatly increased chance of recall to prison. The need which the reforms purported to meet remains unmet. There is little point in poorly designed and delivered provision; on the other hand, resources for the foreseeable future are not likely to support large increases in expenditure when so many parts of the criminal justice system require investment. This article draws on research from the 1990s onwards on provision for this group of prisoners, and in particular, the ‘Pathfinder’ projects of 1999–2003, as examples of what can be achieved on a voluntary basis. It is suggested that future provision for this group in England and Wales should be based on a more selective and individualized provision, with less coercion and more choice for service users.

scholarly journals Facilitating Understanding of Ex-Prison Service Users’ Needs: The Utility of Q Method as a Means of Representing Service User Voices in Service Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 341-374
Author(s):  
Siv Elin Nord Sæbjørnsen ◽  
Sarah Hean ◽  
Atle Ødegård
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Service User ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Organisational Learning ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Q Method ◽  
Novel Approaches

AbstractNovel approaches are needed if the voices of prisoners as service users are to be heard in service development and organisational learning. In this chapter we introduce Q methodology and suggest how this research method can be applied in order to reveal the views of service users in contact with the criminal justice system. We illustrate this by describing the development of a set of Q statements used to elicit the perspectives of ex-prisoners’ experiences of service provisions in an UK mentorship organisation. We discuss how Q methodology can be applied to capture ex-prison service users’ views in research, in therapy or in dialogues between service user and mentor, as well as in including service users’ voices in service development.

Overview of the U.S. Criminal Justice System and Safety Tips for International Students

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
The U.S

While most international students have a rewarding educational experience in the United States, a small percentage are arrested for criminal behavior or victimized by criminals. The author discusses safety from crime and provides safety tips to help reduce crime victimization potential. Further, since the American criminal justice system can be overwhelming, confusing, and intimidating for anyone who does not work within the system on a regular basis, this chapter provides international students and higher education officials with an overview of this system. The author also briefly discusses constitutional rights and the arrest and trial process. Finally, the author addresses some behaviors that international students should avoid to not place themselves at risk for receiving a criminal summons, citation, or arrest.

Overview of the U.S. Criminal Justice System and Safety Tips for International Students

2016 ◽  
pp. 264-288
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
The U.S

While most international students have a rewarding educational experience in the United States, a small percentage are arrested for criminal behavior or victimized by criminals. The author discusses safety from crime and provides safety tips to help reduce crime victimization potential. Further, since the American criminal justice system can be overwhelming, confusing, and intimidating for anyone who does not work within the system on a regular basis, this chapter provides international students and higher education officials with an overview of this system. The author also briefly discusses constitutional rights and the arrest and trial process. Finally, the author addresses some behaviors that international students should avoid to not place themselves at risk for receiving a criminal summons, citation, or arrest.

scholarly journals PUSAT STUDI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN FAKULTAS HUKUM UKI

to-ra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Petrus Irwan Panjaitan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Higher Education Law ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
Study Center

Abstract Pusat Studi Lembaga Pemasyarakatan is an institution that conducts scienti c analysis of the correctional system; inmate behavior; of cer behavior; coaches behavior; the regulations that apply in Corrections Institutions;  facilities available to the public’s view of the Penitentiary; in addition there are also problems that occur in the Penitentiary; such as a criminal period that is too short; community prisoners’ social relations; the problem of assimilation into and outside the institution and the problem of the prisoner’s biological needs; can be analyzed or studied in more depth; to make effective analysis of the existence of Correctional Institutions requires an  academic authority through the Higher Education Law Institution as a Higher Education Institution, the UKI Faculty of Law should properly have a Correctional Institution Study Center when entering the age of 40 years as well as maintaining the best predicate among the Law Pakuitas as a consideration of establishment Study Centers that until now there has not been a Faculty of Law that has such Study Centers; Penitentiary a strategic part of the criminal justice system; Penal Institutions need to be empowered in their role in society.   Keywords: Lembaga Pemasyarakatan; prison; study center; criminal justice system.  

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