EDUCATION IN PRISON

Question 1

7 resettlement pathways

Answer 1

1. accommodation
2. education, training and employment
3. health
4. drugs and alcohol
5. finance, benefit and debt
6. children and families
7. attitudes, thinking and behaviour

Question 2

traditional model

Answer 2

1. education
2. skills and qualification
3. employment
4. reduction in offending

Question 3

holistic model

Answer 3

1. well being
2. human capital
3. social capital
4. knowledge, skills and employability

Question 4

desistance theory

Answer 4

reoffending (personal deficits, educational needs, narrow concept of employability) vs desistance (building strengths, educational aspirations, a wider conception of employability)

Question 5

statistics

Answer 5

• 47% reported having no qualifications
• 5% educated beyond alevel
• 45% reconvicted 1 year after release