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Education, Change, and Transformation

The Prison Experience

Stephen Duguid

Simon Fraser University

Ray Pawson

Leeds University

This article explores the transformative capacity of education by using realistic evaluation rnethodology in the context of a follow-up study of 654 Canadian former federal prisoners who had been part of a liberal arts university prison education program. After release, 75% of the prisoners remainedfree of reincarceration for at least 3 years. The study examines in detail three groups within the 654: a group of 119 whose academic perfonnance improved, a group of 99 whose academic performance was consistently high and who were active in program affairs, and a group of 118 who were high school dropouts from broken homes. Using a recidivism prediction device (Statistical Information on Recidivism—SIR), subgroups are identified based on biographic and/or academic variables and actual postrelease success or failure compared with the prediction.

Evaluation Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, 470-495 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9802200403
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