Community-Based Participatory Research with Women in Prison The Women’s Words/Women’s Worlds Peer Mentoring Program / [electronic resource] :
by Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg, Julie Tennant-Caine.
- 1st ed. 2024.
- XI, 105 p. 48 illus., 43 illus. in color. online resource.
- Anthropology and Ethics, 2195-0830 .
- Anthropology and Ethics, .
Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) An Innovative Approach to Working with Women’s Prisons -- Collaboratively Determining Direction and Parameters -- The Mentor and Mentee Manuals -- Implementation -- Ten Reasons Why Community Based Participatory Research Can Transform Women’s Prisons.
This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called “Women’s Words/Women’s Worlds (WoW).” Using the example of WoW, the book provides a guide to doing community-based participatory research (CBPR) with women in prison that takes a collaborative—rather than the typically adversarial—approach to working together toward the goal of transformative social change. This book provides a ground-breaking example of how incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, and artists successfully worked together on a community-based project that led to meaningful results in the form of a peer mentoring program designed by women in prison for women in prison. Remaining closely attuned to the ethical dimensions of doing CBPR in a highly structured prison environment, this book provides inspiration to CBPR practitioners who seek to work within the criminal justice system to create real and meaningful change for the better. Co-authored by two criminologists, a senior prison administrator, and the unique collective known as WoW, this book provides both a clear step-by-step CBPR guide and a visionary approach to working with criminal justice practitioners.