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Recreation or rehabilitation? Managing sport for development programs with prison populations

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  • David Gallant
  • Emma Sherry
  • Matthew Nicholson

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•There is limited research available on the aims, delivery mechanisms and outcomes of sport programs within the prison context.•Sport delivery in prisons appears to have three main objectives: health, rehabilitation, and inmate management.•Four case studies of sport for development programs in Australian prisons are used to discuss participation outcomes for inmates.•Implications for sport programs in prisons include scheduling, access and facilitating positive outcomes for inmate health and management.•Limited evidence for the impact of sport programs on inmate rehabilitation.The provision of sport and recreation programs to inmates within the prison system provides a unique context to investigate the role of sport in enacting social change. Three main aims of prison-based sport programs have been identified in research: inmate health and wellbeing, inmate rehabilitation, and inmate management. This paper presents four case studies of sport programs in prisons across Australia. Inmates completed qualitative interviews in order to investigate program outcomes, design, and delivery. Although the participants in the four case studies came from substantially different prison populations (male, female, Indigenous, intellectual disability, general population) and geographic locations, there were key themes across the groups. Outcomes for both inmates and prisons tended to focus on inmate health and wellbeing and inmate management. Sport and recreation programs appeared to have a positive influence on inmates’ health and behaviour; however, the efficacy of rehabilitation efforts through sport remains uncertain.

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  • David Gallant & Emma Sherry & Matthew Nicholson, 2015. "Recreation or rehabilitation? Managing sport for development programs with prison populations," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 45-56, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:18:y:2015:i:1:p:45-56
    DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2014.07.005
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    1. Gema Ortega Vila & Manuel Tomás Abad Robles & José Robles Rodríguez & Luis Javier Durán González & Jorge Franco Martín & Ana Concepción Jiménez Sánchez & Francisco Javier Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, 2020. "Analysis of a Sports-Educational Program in Prisons," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(10), pages 1-10, May.
    2. Mark Norman, 2020. "Sport and Incarceration: Theoretical Considerations for Sport for Development Research," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(3), pages 187-196.
    3. Arkadiusz Urbanek, 2020. "Reactions of Prison Staff to the Needs of Culturally Different Convicts," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Schulenkorf, Nico & Siefken, Katja, 2019. "Managing sport-for-development and healthy lifestyles: The sport-for-health model," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 96-107.

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