This is a collection of autobiographical accounts by offenders of their schooldays, illustrating the current debate on the links between poor education, crime, and recidivism.
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This work examines the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour. It contains the stories of inmates' schooldays told in their own words as they try to answer the question "could anything have been done to prevent you being in custody now?"
An examination of the links between educational failure and future offending behaviour based on a collection of first-hand accounts by prisoners of their experiences.
Criminal Classes comprises recollections by offenders of their schooldays together with a commentary by the author. It was praised from the outset and has been twice reprinted in response to demand. A wealth of information for criminologists, sociologists and educationalists is …