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Prisoner education debates in Congress elite discourse and policymaking
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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 discov...
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
Details
- Creator
- Mark Tim Yates
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781593325299, 1593325290, 1593324901
- OCLC
- ocn787842795
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction -- Prison system in perspective -- Prisoner education -- Research lens -- The pell grant debates -- The second chance act debates -- Insights and implications -- References -- Index