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Post-secondary education is claimed to have long-term life benefits for all individuals. However, little is known in terms of how post-secondary education assists ex-inmates to live crime-free. The aim of the present study was to explore how post-secondary education independently and directly came to assist ex-inmates to live crime-free. Participants (n=20) in the study were male ex-inmates living crime-free. Comprehensive education-related information in terms of school experiences, learning trajectories and educational history/background was collected for each of the participants. The study found that only few participants (20%) who continued post-secondary post-prison education not only remained crime-free but had a positive pathway post-release. Gaining post-secondary qualifications appeared to position ex-inmates in a socially cultured academic environment away from anti-social and negative at-risk communities directly assisting them to live crime-free. Consequently post-secondary education appears to reposition ex-inmates into a crime-free post-prison pathway. Hence, prison education (i.e. education programs delivered in prison) for inmates should be organized and/or facilitated toward post-secondary education with a multifaceted lifelong learning pathways.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	post-secondary education, ex-inmates
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Other education
Research Field:	Other education not elsewhere classified
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Schools and learning environments
Objective Field:	Equity and access to education
UTAS Author:	J-F (Dr J F)
UTAS Author:	Swabey, K (Professor Karen Swabey)
UTAS Author:	Pullen, D (Dr Darren Pullen)
UTAS Author:	Fluck, A (Associate Professor Andrew Fluck)
UTAS Author:	Yu, J (Dr JJ Yu)
ID Code:	97625
Year Published:	2014
Deposited By:	Education
Deposited On:	2015-01-05
Last Modified:	2017-12-09
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