1st Edition
The Rhetoric of Resistance to Prison Education How the "War on Crime" Became the "War on Criminals"
By Adam Key
Copyright 2022
106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the discourse and rhetoric that resists and opposes postsecondary prison education. Positioning prison college programs as the best method to truly reduce recidivism, the book shows how the public – and by extension politicians – remain largely opposed to public funding for these programs, and how prisoners face internal resistance from their fellow inmates when pursuing higher... Read more
Preface; 1. The Prison Classroom; 2. Kids Before Cons?; 3. Shawshank Irredeemable; 4. Convictism; 5. The X On Your Back
Biography
Adam Key is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, USA. He spent most his early career teaching in Texas prisons. His research concerns the rhetorical, discursive, and mediated construction of deviance, particularly within the education system.
