Arts intervention with female offenders
The research looks at the uses of museum and gallery education with female offenders. It aims to:
provide evidence that working with the arts has a positive effect on the rehabilitation of female offenders;
argue that participation in arts projects for offenders is their cultural entitlement and should be facilitated by the authorities as a human right;
investigate the problems that arts organisations have in delivering projects to female offenders and suggest ways to overcome these problems.
This qualitative research used observations, questionnaires, field notes and semi-structured interviews through to participation and action research. Projects were undertaken with the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A), in HMP Askham Grange and in HMP Holloway.
Author: Carlotta Goulden
Published: 2007