scholarly journals Peer-focused prison reentry programs: Which peer characteristics matter most?

Incarceration ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263266632110199
Author(s):  
Esther Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Peer Mentors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Reentry Programs ◽  
Recidivism Rates ◽  
Peer Mentorship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Role

Over the past two decades, recidivism rates have remained relatively stable, leading practitioners to explore innovative reentry solutions. One reentry model, based on the concept of peer mentorship, has received renewed attention. Unfortunately, little is known about which peer characteristics make mentors most effective in a prison setting. This study uses participant observation and semi-structured interviews, embedded with survey questions, to understand which “peer” characteristics prison staff, peer mentors, and mentees perceive as the most important. Analysis of survey data also suggests that a history of incarceration is perceived as the most important characteristic for peer mentors in a reentry context. Additionally, the qualitative analysis reveals that mentors need to be perceived as credible to be effective role models for reentry. This credibility was almost exclusively linked to a lived experience of incarceration. Peer mentorship remains a viable option for improving reentry outcomes, but hiring the appropriate, credible peers is essential for effective implementation.

Imagined innocence meets lived experience

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah C. Lightner
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ya Literature ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Literature Class

Purpose The purpose of this study was to challenge pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) assumptions about youth readers, the researcher in this study invited a group of three seventh-grade students to attend a multicultural young adult (YA) literature class designed for PSTs at a large mid-western university. Design/methodology/approach Using qualitative methodology, the researcher strove to answer the following question: How can instructors use youth literature and teaching practices to shift the way that youth readers are perceived – especially marginalized youth – within educational institutions? Data sources included participant observation and field notes, semi-structured interviews with participating seventh-grade students, discussion artifacts, lesson plans and discussion transcripts. Findings The author found that the seventh-grade students in this study shared intertextual connections and offered critical readings of text and the world that had the potential to challenge PSTs’ notions of how YA literature can, and should, be used in classrooms. Importantly, the adolescent students were also able to see themselves as competent participants in collegiate dialogue around texts. Originality/value Much research has been done on the value of giving PSTs experiences in school field experiences, but this research highlights the power of interactions between adolescents and PSTs in a university classroom.

scholarly journals TAREKAT KEBANGSAAN: Kajian Antropologi Sufi Terhadap Pemikiran Nasionalisme Habib Luthfie

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imam Khanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
The Social ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab Descent

The focus of this study are: what exactly is behind the surge of nationalism of Habib Luthfi bin Yahya Pekalongan as a head thariqah mu'tabarah Jam `iyya ahl al - nahdhiyyah; how exactly his view of state and nationality in the tarekat perspective; and what efforts made by him to serve as a vehicle for planting nationalism among the tarekat adherent. Documentation, participant observation, and in- dept interview were used to explore the needed data to answer those questions. To analysis data, anthropological approach was used. The results showed that Habib Lutfi bin Yahya who is of Arab descent among sayyid born in Pekalongan and lived in conditions and situations of a family that had a high khidmah to the social problems of Indonesian nationality. Extensive social relations with various communities had formed his thought to be pluralist and multukultural. To him, love for nation is a manifestation of the love of God and the Prophet. NKRI is set in stone, because Indonesia is the result of religious leaders of the struggle to ensure the realization of a just social system and prosperity to the consummation ta'abudiyah to God. The Indonesian people should not forget the history of his people, through the introduction of, respect for and taking the value of their role models. The strongnese of NKRI was a means of the realization of general welfare, so that the existence NKRI was necessary or obligatory. The implication of this was that to guard, to nurture and to respect the legitimate leader were also religious imperative. In the teachings of any congregation, positive thingking, and supporting the realization of brotherhood and security that it is the responsibility of government should be promoted.

scholarly journals “Taming the Beast”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Using a Life History Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Author(s):  
Therese Burke ◽  
Steve Vucic ◽  
Joanna Patching
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Life History ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Relapsing Remitting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Remitting Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Background and PurposeThe aim of this study was to gain insights and understanding into the lived experience of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in order to better inform patient-centerd nursing and healthcare.MethodsThis qualitative study used life history methodology, a form of focused ethnography, to explore the life history of 13 study participants living with RRMS. Semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis.FindingsA total of eight key themes emerged, explaining the journey of living with RRMS. Commencing with “Piecing Together the Puzzle” of symptoms at the beginning of the RRMS journey, followed by “(Re)defining ME now that I have RRMS,” “Battling the Demons,” the experiences of “Surplus Suffering,” negotiating “High Invisibility,” gaining control by “Taming the Beast,” learning “The DMT Dance,” and ultimately “Holding Hands with Hope,” expressing hope and practising purposeful positivity.Implications for PracticeThe eight key themes of living with RRMS were reflective of the ebbs and flows of life. By gaining these insights into the world of people living with RRMS, it is anticipated that clinical nursing care and quality of life for people living with this chronic neurological disease may be improved.

Black Men’s Experience of Police Harassment: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
Ania Townsell ◽  
Eric B. Vogel ◽  
Alvin McLean
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Men's Experience

Abstract The Black community has a long, well-documented history of being disproportionately harassed by law enforcement. While psychological research has studied this phenomenon, more in-depth research on Black men’s lived-experience of police harassment is needed. This qualitative study used descriptive phenomenology to investigate Black men’s experience of being harassed by law enforcement officers. An analysis of non-structured interviews with a sample of four participants revealed several essential aspects of this experience, including: anxiety in response to the initial awareness of law enforcement’s presence, fear and confusion in response to abrupt escalation of aggression and hostility by officers, a sense of humiliation in response to degrading police tactics, anger over inability to pursue redress through the justice system, ongoing negative emotion, and a sense of having been psychologically harmed by the harassment. The implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Beloved Land, Beloved Family: The Role of Welfare in Timorese Migration to England

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Claire C. Millar
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Market State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Based ◽  
System Migration

AbstractTimor-Leste’s long history of colonisation and occupation has posed significant welfare challenges for the small, half-island nation nestled between Asia and the Pacific. Since independence in 2002, a budding pattern of migration has emerged, with increasing numbers of Timorese living and working in the United Kingdom. This chapter seeks to understand how the welfare concerns of these migrants shape their decisions about geographical mobility and vice versa. Analysing semi-structured interviews and overt participant observation conducted in England in 2017 and drawing on an extended version of the welfare resource environment framework, it explores the role of market, state and family-based welfare provisions in this migration trend. It finds that Timorese migrants in England utilise migration – and the market and state-based welfare provisions it brings – in service of their own, family-based social protection system. Migration between welfare contexts allows increased access to new and varied sources of welfare, valued for how they support a family-based framework founded on interdependence, relationships with others and responsibility. By querying the mobility of Timorese migrants in England in light of their welfare concerns, this chapter elucidates the culturally embedded ways in which migrants and their families piece together unique protection packages.

scholarly journals ‘A Slow Build-Up of a History of Kindness’: Exploring the Potential of Community-Led Housing in Alleviating Loneliness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11323
Author(s):  
Jim Hudson ◽  
Kath Scanlon ◽  
Chihiro Udagawa ◽  
Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia ◽  
Mara Ferreri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Research Project ◽  
History Of

This article explores the potential of community-led housing (CLH) in combatting loneliness, and represents a mixed-methods research project carried out from just before the beginning of the pandemic, through 2020. Methods comprised a nationwide quantitative online survey of members of CLH groups (N = 221 respondents from England and Wales), followed by five case studies of communities representing a range of different CLH models. This qualitative element comprised participant observation, and semi-structured interviews at each group. The article also considers data from a smaller research project carried out by the same team in July 2020, that aimed to capture the experience of the pandemic for CLH groups, and comprising an online questionnaire followed by 18 semi-structured interviews. We conclude that members of CLH projects are measurably less lonely than those with comparable levels of social connection in wider society, and that such benefits are achieved through combinations of multiple different elements that include physical design, social design and through social processes. Notably, not all aspects of communities that contribute positively are a result of explicit intentionality, albeit the concept is considered key to at least one of the models.

scholarly journals GEOPOLITICS IN THE INFRASTRUCTURAL IDEOLOGIES OF 5G

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter 'Maxigas' Dunajcsik ◽  
Niels Ten Oever
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Historical Agency

This paper explores how infrastructural ideologies function as tools in geopolitical struggles for dependence and independence of world powers. Meese Frith and Wilken (2020) suggest that controversies around 5G stem from infrastructural anxieties best examined in the framework of geopolitics. We build on this work by analyzing the emerging infrastructural imaginary of 5G in light of the changing global division of labor. Sociotechnical imaginaries (Jasanoff and Kim 2015) refer to the vision of technologies themselves, while ideologies refer to the totality of social relations, translating the objective reality of material conditions to subjective lived experience (Bory 2020). The Western imaginaries around 5G infrastructures reflect, deflect, translate and sublimate the infrastructural anxieties tied to the development and deployment of new network paradigms. Their controversial nature, contradictory content, and fragmented presentation is a necessary part of living through the trauma of lost historical agency on the part of Western superpowers. We engaged in code ethnography (Rosa 2019) of GSM, internet, and 5G technologies, as well as participant observation in the main standard-development organizations of the internet and 5G, and semi-structured interviews with equipment vendors and network operators. Our methodological assumption, taken from World Systems Theory (Wallerstein and Wallerstein 2004), is that the character and content of imaginaries and their underpinning ideologies creatively reflect the position of actors in the global division of labor. This paper contributes to the understanding of the role of infrastructures in geopolitical power tussles and straddles the fields of science and technology studies and international relations.

“How do you live without a stomach?”: A multiple case study examination of total gastrectomy for palliation or prophylaxis

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila N. Garland ◽  
Joshua Lounsberry ◽  
Guy Pelletier ◽  
Oliver F. Bathe
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Total Gastrectomy ◽  
Stomach Cancer ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Surgical Removal ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

AbstractObjective:The number of diagnosed cases of stomach cancer in Western countries is relatively small compared to prevalence rates in Eastern populations. This disparity creates a general lack of information and understanding of the experience of patients treated for this disease in North America. Surgical removal of the stomach, also called total gastrectomy (TG), is presently the only curative treatment available to patients with stomach cancer. Considering the impact such a procedure may have, very little is known about what factors influence an individual's postsurgical quality of life (QL).Method:This article reviews current literature and examines three unique case studies. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using content analysis, a qualitative analytic approach for reporting combined subject responses.Results:Participants included one 37-year-old man with multiple polyps in his stomach and a family history of stomach cancer, one 18 year-old man with a confirmed CDH1 mutation and a family history of stomach cancer, and one 33-year-old man with confirmed metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma. Subjective patient experience was categorized into: (1) making the decision, (2) treatment impact, and (3) life after TG. Prior to surgery, all patients carefully evaluated their perceived risk compared to the treatment consequences and indicated that a certain event triggered their decision. The largest treatment impacts were learning to eat again and adjusting to the physical changes. Each patient endorsed that their experience made them appreciate and make the most of life.Significance of results:This currently represents the only study to investigate the lived experience of TG for prophylaxis or palliation in individuals with and without genetic risk for stomach cancer. Understanding this process will allow all members of the cancer care team, and the patients themselves, to better understand the factors involved in decision making and postoperative adjustment. Fruitful avenues for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals "Fomos despejados aqui!": Tradição e Memória como estratégias de reprodução entre os Quilombolas da Bocaina, MT

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaís Aparecida C. dos Santos ◽  
Flávio Bezerra Barros
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Community Resistance ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Communities

O estudo da memória constitui-se um importante instrumento para compreendermos a heterogeneidade cultural das comunidades tradicionais. O objetivo deste ensaio foi descrever as memórias, tradições e estratégias dos quilombolas da Serra da Bocaina, Mato Grosso. Para isso, realizamos entrevistas informais, semiestruturada e observação participante. Para o registro utilizamos o diário de campo e fotografias.  As narrativas mostram a história da comunidade, as suas festas tradicionais, a fabricação artesanal de redes de algodão, de utensílios de barro, a construção de casa de sapé com cobertura de palha, assim como a sua roça. Ao fim, podemos considerar que as tradições são realizadas no dia a dia pela comunidade, demonstrando a resistência da comunidade às adversidades da sociedade e do lugar onde vivem.Palavras-chave: População Tradicional. Cerrado. Etnoconhecimento.We were evicted here: Tradition and memory as strategies of reproduction between the Quilombola communities of Bocaína, MT.AbstractThe study of memory constitutes an important tool for understanding the cultural heterogeneity of the traditional communities. The objective of this paper was to describe the memories, traditions and strategies of the Quilombolas of Serra da Bocaina, Mato Grosso. To do this, we conducted semi-structured interviews, participant observation. For the record we use the field journal and photographs. The narratives show the history of the community, its traditional fiestas, the artisanal cotton networks, clay utensils, building house thatched with straw, as well as his farm. At the end, we can consider that the traditions are carried out on a daily by the community, demonstrating the community resistance to adversity of society and the place where they live.Keywords: Traditional people. Cerrado. Ethnoknowledge. 

scholarly journals Treating for stability: an ethnographic study of aspirations and limitations in haemophilia treatment in Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Thomas Hughes ◽  
Mikkel Brok-Kristensen ◽  
Yosha Gargeya ◽  
Anne Mette Worsøe Lottrup ◽  
Ask Bo Larsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews

AbstractBackgroundRecent improvements in approaches to treatment have opened a window of opportunity to redefine and expand the goals of treatment in haemophilia This article explores treatment culture in light of these improvements and its potential impact on the range of possibilitis in the lived experience of haemophilia.AimsThe aim of this article is to further investigate findings related to how health care professionals (HCPs) approach haemophilia treatment and care, one of the main themes identified in an ethnographic study of the everyday life of people with haemophilia (PwH). This large-scale study investigated PwH's beliefs and experiences related to their condition, their treatment, and their personal ways of managing the condition.MethodsThe study used ethnographic research methods. Five haemophilia experts helped frame the research design by providing historical and disease area context prior to the initation of field research. In the field, study researchers collected data through 8–12 hours of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, written exercises, facilitated group dialogues, and on-site observations of the interactions of PwH with friends, family, and HCPs. Study researchers also conducted on-site observation at haemophilia treatment centres (HTCs) and interviewed HCPs. The study employed a multi-tiered grounded theory approach and combined data were analysed using techniques such as inductive and deductive analysis, cross-case analysis, challenge mapping, and clustering exercises. This article explores findings related specifically to how HCPs approach haemophilia treatment and care, and is thus focused on a subset of the data from the study.ResultsFifty-one PwH in Italy, Germany, Spain, UK, and Ireland were interviewed and followed in their daily lives. Eighteen HCPs from seven HTCs were interviewed, and on-site observation was undertaken at six of the HTCs. Most haematologists in the study ‘treated for stability’, rather than to guide PwH to overcome limitations. ‘Treating for stability’ here refers to an approach to haemophilia care that focuses on measuring success in terms of annual bleed rate, instilling a focus on mitigating risk, rather than an approach that allows PwH to overcome the limitations they face due to their condition. However, some haematologists had moved beyond treating for stability to instead treat for possibilities, enabling a better quality of life for PwH.ConclusionsThese results suggest that a culture of ‘treating for stability’ could be limiting progress in expanding the goals of treatment in haemophilia. Expanded metrics of success, more flexible approaches to treatment, and higher ambitions on behalf of PwH may be needed in treatment and care, in order for PwH to fully benefit from treatment advances and to increase their quality of life.

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