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Welfare behind the wall: the bureaucratic origins and development of correctional education in the United States 1915-2012
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Socha, Bailey K.. Welfare behind the wall: the bureaucratic origins and development of correctional education in the United States 1915-2012. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-a1ab-9b38

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TitleWelfare behind the wall: the bureaucratic origins and development of correctional education in the United States 1915-2012
NameSocha, Bailey K. (author); Miller, Lisa L. (chair); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-05 (degree)
SubjectPrisons, Political Science, Prisoners -- Education -- United States -- History
Extent1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages)
DescriptionThis dissertation draws on approximately 8,000 pages of archival data to excavate the origins and development of prison education in the United States. I locate prison education at the crossroads of welfare and carceral state development, not as an exceptional policymaking sphere. This dissertation develops a geological metaphor of the marbled penal welfare state to capture and assess bureaucratic-centric penal state building. I find that prison education is the result of decades-long bureaucratic innovation carried out at the institutional level of prisons from 1915 to the 1960s, coordinated through a national reform network. I then analyze how correctional education fared in the punitive era in Texas. I find that programs persisted in spite of hostile policymakers in other domains, but suffered double exposure from both punitive actors and broader welfare retrenchment. I conclude with an analysis of how the marbled penal welfare analogy, and the case of Texas in particular, shed light on the modern criminal justice reform debate.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-a1ab-9b38
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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