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Selective Ethics and Integrity: Moral Development and Prison Education
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This paper argued that prisoners are one part of a large group of citizens who suffer from uneven development in the cognitive and moral realms due to biographical and structural factors, and education infused with a critical humanist appreciation of values issues is proposed as an antidote to the effects of this uneven development and a source of new personal empowerment.Abstract:
A case exists for there being a moral dimension to prison education and a case against moral education programs in prison. The argument is made that prisoners are one part of a large group of citizens who suffer from uneven development in the cognitive and moral realms due to biographical and structural factors.Education infused with a critical humanist appreciation of values issues is proposed as an antidote to the effects of this uneven development and a source of new personal empowerment.read more
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The Just Community Approach to Corrections: A Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the principles of moral development derived from the study of children to the prison situation and apply them to encourage moral development in inmates in order to stimulate higher levels of moral thinking.