Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, this book is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.
Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Belgium to explore key methodological approaches and issues through the lens of the researchers themselves.
Beginning with the original pioneers of research into the arts in corrections in the USA in the 1980s, this book highlights the role of researchers in evidencing impact and influencing policy. Contributors include those who were themselves once incarcerated and those who have transitioned from practitioner to criminologist. Chapters lay the groundwork for discussion on how an important avenue for rehabilitation and re-entry can be developed, providing a call to action for more research into a field which holds promise for building a more just, equitable, and inclusive society.
This book is essential reading for criminologists engaged in prisons, corrections, and desistance research, as well as researchers and practitioners in the arts and rehabilitation.
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Informed by recent research in the field, this innovative and international book focuses on the intersection of the arts, corrections and criminal justice. This is an authoritative and accessible book which poses some important questions in light of different approaches and compelling positive evidence of impact. The book is beyond compare!
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, England
In this important contribution to the field, Mandy Gardner and Laura Caulfield present a fascinating variety of research methods at the intersection of cultural practices and the administration of justice in different nations. Through profiles and introspective essays, the researchers are themselves on view, exposing their family histories, motivations and journeys beyond academia as they demonstrate how arts engagement strengthens the humanity of incarcerated people.
Alma Robinson, Executive Director, California Lawyers for the Arts, United States
Building on the foundations laid by decades of interdisciplinary research, this book is a compelling testament to the transformative potential of the arts within the criminal justice system. Through its pages, the reader is taken on a journey across continents and disciplines, discovering ways in which the arts can serve as a catalyst for change and healing. By foregrounding both original pioneers and new thinkers in the field, it will serve as both a historical account and a forward-looking perspective, encouraging researchers, practitioners and policymakers to think critically about the role of the arts in addressing systemic issues within criminal justice. A groundbreaking work thats a must-read for those in the fields of criminal justice, the arts and social advocacy.
Neil Wallace, Arts in Corrections Advisor, Arts Access Aotearoa, New Zealand
The global potential for a flourishing of creativity in prisons has never been greater. Along with individual practitioner accounts and pedagogical innovations, we need new constructive and effective methods of evaluation to explain how arts-in-corrections programmes can deliver worthy outcomes, ranging from recidivism reduction to the transformation of willing people by building self-esteem, strengthening life skills, and finding new identities as productive members of the community following re-entry. Accordingly, this pioneering work in the promising field of evaluative methodologies for the arts in prison cultures is timely, essential, and inspiring.
John R. Whitman, Creative Prisons Project, Chicago, IL, USA, Cultural Trends
1.Introduction and overview of arts in criminal justice and corrections
Mandy Gardner and Laura Caulfield
Part
1. The impact of the arts in criminal justice and corrections: What
works, how it works, and why
2. New theoretical frameworks for designing and evaluating
arts-in-corrections programs
Larry Brewster, Jack Bowers and Laurie Brooks
3. Developing methodologies to evidence the impact of the arts in criminal
justice.
Laura Caulfield
4. Practice informs research informs policy informs practice informs... [ ad
infinitum]
David Gussak
5. A realist lens on participatory music programmes in prison
Silke Marynissen, Geert Vandermeersche and Dorien Brosens
Part
2. The researchers journey
6. Education research, vulnerability and positionality: a story of the
methodological journey of an education researcher in prison
Jennie Henley
7. Collaboration as a tool for transformative justice: Writing, songwriting,
and communal Singing
Mary Cohen
8. Autoethnography as a bridge to shared decision-making
Reginold Daniels and Mandy Gardner
Part
3. Foregrounding the people in arts spaces
9. Making the story count: An argument for the development of a narrative
evaluation tool in the arts in criminal justice sector
Ella Simpson
10. On games and gamification: Understanding whats a stake in co-designing
with prisoners
Lorraine Gamman
11. Listening through walls: Enacting a politics of listening
Rand Hazou and Sarah Woodland
Amanda Gardner, PhD, is based in the USA and is the co-author of the Prison Arts Resource Project (PARP), the first annotated bibliography of all evidence-based research into US correctional arts programs. The project was funded by the US National Endowment for the Arts. She is also co-director of SCAN Correctional Arts Network, which houses the PARP and serves as a nexus for researchers and practitioners in justice-related arts. She has worked as an arts practitioner in alternative settings, including prisons, jails, and homeless shelters and is the recipient or co-recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts grants. She also has worked as a journalist and has published widely in consumer and academic journals, including the Journal of Prison Education and Reentry and Teachers & Writers. In her work as a community artist, she has edited and published several zines written by participants in her workshops as well as two editions of the Albuquerque Almanac, a collection of stories written by and about diverse members of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, community.
Laura Caulfield, PhD, is Founding Chair of the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Laura is a psychologist and criminologist and has written extensively on the role of the arts in criminal justice. Lauras work has influenced the practice of arts programmes in the criminal justice system and has developed new methodological approaches in seeking to evidence the impact of the arts. She was involved in the design of the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance Evidence Library, a repository for key research and evaluation documents on the impact of arts-based projects, programmes, and interventions within the criminal justice system. Laura is the author of two other books Forensic Psychology (2014, Pearson), and Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners (2014, 2018, 2025, Routledge).
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