The Impact of Career and Technical Education Programs on Adult Offenders: Learning behind Bars.

By H. Gordon, Bracie Weldon. 2003

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Exposure to Violent Crime During Incarceration (2009, background): “…of providing educational and vocational programs to inmates and the connection between a lack of education and recidivism rates (Fabelo, 2002; Gordon & Weldon, 2003; Vacca, 2004), substantial efforts to educate inmates have been curtailed over the years as the United States moved from a…”
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education: A Meta-Analysis of Programs That Provide Education to Incarcerated Adults (2013, result): “As can be seen by the patterning of boxes and whiskers in this figure, the majority of studies report that the odds of recidivism are lower in the treatment group, with one study (Gordon and Weldon, 2003) finding substantially lower odds of recidivism among treatment group members.”
The Effect of Correctional Education on Postrelease Employment and Recidivism (2012, background): “…there is no universal consensus on measuring the success of correctional education programs while employing the recidivism rate as the postrelease outcome measure (see, for example, Batiuk et al., 1997; Fabelo, 2002; Gordon & Weldon, 2003; Jancic, 1998; Nuttall et al., 2003; Stevens & Ward, 1997).”