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Barriers to participation in vocational education among prisoners

Journal Contribution - Journal Article

This study investigates the barriers to prisoners’ participation in vocational orientation programmes, as well as the predictors of different types of barriers. Survey data derived from a project in a remand prison in Belgium (N=468) provided the empirical evidence for the analyses. The results indicate that facing situational and informational barriers are most common. Based on the different kinds of barriers, various types of non-par- ticipants can be distinguished and multinomial logistic regression analyses are conducted to identify in what way participants of vocational orientation programmes differ from various types of non-participants. For instance, prisoners with a poor understanding of the Dutch language and those who never/rarely receive visitors partici- pate less in vocational orientation programmes as they are more likely to be confronted with informational bar- riers. Paths for future research and implications for policy and practice will be discussed.
Journal: Journal of Prison Education and Reentry
ISSN: 2387-2306
Issue: 2
Volume: 2
Pages: 8-22
Keywords:Barriers, Participation, Vocational education, Prison
  • ORCID: /0000-0003-4999-5902/work/68877001
  • VABB Id: c:vabb:395621