Degrees of Freedom: Prison Education at The Open University - Softcover

Earle, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447353072 ISBN 13: 9781447353072

Publisher: Policy Press, 2019

Synopsis

The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 50 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received, offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of education in prison.

About this title

About the Authors

Rod Earle is a senior lecturer at The Open University in the school of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care. He is a founder member of the British Convict Criminology group which supports the development of prisoner and ex-prisoner perspectives in criminology. He has published widely on this topic and is on the advisory board of the Prison Reform Trust’s prisoner engagement project.

James Mehigan is a lecturer in criminology at the Open University and a human rights barrister at Garden Court Chambers. He is also a trustee of the UK branch of Front Line Defenders, a NGO that focuses on the protection of human rights defenders at risk around the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447353072
• ISBN 13: 9781447353072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246