Research article

The relationship between prisoners' educational motives and previous incarceration, sentence length, and sentence served

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine Norwegian prisoners' educational motives, and how previous incarceration, sentence length, and sentence served influence such motives. Three motive categories emerged: future planning (Factor 1), social reasons and escapism (Factor 2), and competence building (Factor 3). Among prisoners who participated in education, longer sentence predicted high score on both Factor 1 and Factor 3. Also, with the greater proportion of sentence served, participants scored higher on Factor 3. Among non-participants, longer sentence predicted high score on Factor 3. Previous incarceration was not significantly related to the educational motives for either of the two groups.

Keywords: PRISON EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL MOTIVES, SENTENCE LENGTH, ADULT EDUCATION

How to Cite:

Roth, B. & Manger, T., (2014) “The relationship between prisoners' educational motives and previous incarceration, sentence length, and sentence served”, London Review of Education 12(2), 209–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.12.2.06

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