Vocational Training In Prisons
There are many factors that have been explored and documented to explain why people turn to crime. Many of these early criminology theories had at their core, the premise that crime is more prevalent in sectors of society that are deprived and where young people have little education.
In prisons in the UK today education and the attempt to offer skills to a previously unskilled and uneducated prison population has proved successful in part. This work will attempt to discover what factors might put a prisoner off taking up vocational training offered and what measures could be taken to encourage more prisoners to enrol in further education or vocational training.