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1. 'Freedom from themselves' gendered mechanisms of control, power, and resistance in prison dog training programs

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Button, Andrea. and Button, Andrea.

Abstract

During the past twenty-five years, the number of prison programs in which inmates train dogs has increased rapidly. A lack of systematic studies to address the effects of these programs on staff and inmates has led to limited, anecdotal accounts of the impact of these programs on correctional institutions and their occupants. In addition, an analysis of differences in these effects for men and women is missing. This paper proposes to bridge this gap through qualitative research conducted in two Kansas prisons (a men's and a women's institution) in which inmates train assistance dogs and dogs made available for adoption by the general public. Drawing primarily on the works of Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, and Jill McCorkel, I focus on the mechanisms of social control and resistance within these programs and their effect on the inmates participating in the program, utilizing a gendered analysis throughout. Using the experiences of the men and women in these programs, as well as those of correctional staff and community members, I propose that these programs provide an important outlet for resistance for the participants.

Published
2007

4. Personal Experiences at the Intersection of Illness and Family: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis from Autoethnographic and Comic Memoir Perspectives

Author

Button, Andrea Noel Guziec

Subjects
Communication, Health, Rhetoric, Critical Rhetoric, Caregiving, Illness, Aging, Comic Memoir, Graphic Novel, Autoethnography, Michel Foucault, Raymie E McKerrow
Abstract

Illness can strike a person and family at any time. Although American culture is beginning to shift in how we talk about illness, there is still a cloud over how we communicate about illness; specifically that of our ill/aging parent(s). This study explores how personal experiences intersect with illness and family combining autoethnographic accounts of caring for an ill/aging parent with the works of three comic memoir authors. Seeking to address and analyze the experiences surrounding caring for an ill and/or aging parent, a critical rhetorical framework guided by the works of Raymie E. McKerrow and Michel Foucault is applied to our sociocultural understandings of health, illness, and caregiving. Findings explore both the experiences surrounding caring for an ill/aging parent as well as the systematic structures embedded in the caregiving experience. Chapter Two focuses on personal experiences from an `other’ and `self” orientation through autoethnographic accounts, specifically the influential nature of Pastoral Care (Foucault) of the body. Chapter’s Three and Four explore these same orientations `other’ and `self’ through a critical rhetorical analysis of three comic memoirs: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast, Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies, Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass by Dana Walrath. The analysis identifies key similarities and differences between each authors’ lived experiences. Chapter Five advances the central argument that each author is predispositioned to confirm to and operate within the power structures embedded in our sociocultural understandings of health. I conclude with a discussion of the two major discoveries connected to my central argument, and follow that following with the major contribution of the analysis, the significance of the stories told and used for the analysis, implications for future research, and lastly final reflections.

Published
2019

5. Prison Pups: Assessing the Effects of Dog Training Programs in Correctional Facilities.

Author

Britton, Dana and Button, Andrea

Subjects
DOG training, POLICE dogs, CORRECTIONAL institutions, INSTITUTIONALIZED persons, PRISON administration, CORRECTIONAL personnel
Abstract

During the past twenty-five years the number of prison programs in which inmates train dogs has increased rapidly. There are no comprehensive data on the prevalence of such programs but they are in existence in at least twenty U.S. states, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy. Though extremely popular among both administrators and inmates, we have only anecdotal accounts to assess the effects of dog training by inmates. Such programs appear to have the potential to break down barriers of fear and mistrust between staff and inmates and there is also some evidence, again anecdotal, that they reduce recidivism and behavioral infractions among inmates. Literally no systematic studies exist, however. This research provides preliminary information from data collected in two Kansas prisons (a mens and a womens institution) in which inmates train assistance dogs and dogs made available for adoption by the general public. This paper focuses on the qualitative findings from the study, which involves interviews with inmates, staff, and administrators. These interviews cover three areas: baseline data on the history, curricula and requirements of these programs; administrator and staff perspectives about the effectiveness of the programs their effects on inmate behavior, recidivism, and on institutional safety and security; and inmate perceptions about their work with the dogs, its implications for their lives in prison, and the potential impact on their future prospects after release. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2005

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