Education Against the Tide in Latin American Prisons: education versus punishment
Promoting education in prison is latterly a difficulttask. This paper's objective is to examine the structural causes of this complex situation. We have accomplished a research on official documents and laws, and visited prisons in many Latin American countries, in order to produce this study....
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
2013-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Promoting education in prison is latterly a difficulttask. This paper's objective is to examine the structural causes of this complex situation. We have accomplished a research on official documents and laws, and visited prisons in many Latin American countries, in order to produce this study. Among the many discussed issues, we may highlight: impunity and the failure of the justice system; the limits of punishment;punishment as an ideology; the punishment imagery and the institutional contradictions. |
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| Item Description: | 0100-3143 2175-6236 |