"Look What Boot Camp's Done for Me:" Teaching and Learning at Lakeview Academy

A boot camp is a military style correctional facility in which inmates are subject to a highly structured and challenging regimen of physical training, in addition to vocational, educational, and therapeutic programming (Cronin and Han, 1994; Austin, Jones, and Bolyard, 1993; Mackenzie and Souryal,...

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Published in:Journal of correctional education (1974) 2004-06, Vol.55 (2), p.170-185
Main Authors: Kilgore, Deborah, Meade, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent Attitudes
Adolescents
Adult education
Behavior Modification
Camping
Correctional Education
Correctional Institutions
Correctional Rehabilitation
Counseling
Criminal punishment
Delinquency
Delinquency Prevention
Delinquent Rehabilitation
Education
Educational activities
Ethnography
Focus Groups
Institutionalized Persons
Interpersonal Competence
Intervention
Iowa
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile offenders
Learning
Learning Theories
Learning theory
Males
Motivation
Prisoners
Problem Solving
Program Effectiveness
Recidivism
Rehabilitation of criminals
Self Control
Self Esteem
Social Environment
Social Structure
Social Support Groups
Socialization
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Summary:A boot camp is a military style correctional facility in which inmates are subject to a highly structured and challenging regimen of physical training, in addition to vocational, educational, and therapeutic programming (Cronin and Han, 1994; Austin, Jones, and Bolyard, 1993; Mackenzie and Souryal, 1991). Originally introduced to rehabilitate first time adult offenders, boot camps increasingly have been used by several states to shock and rehabilitate youthful offenders (American Correctional Association, 1997). In this article, the authors carried out an institutional ethnography of Lakeview Academy, a 90-day boot camp for adolescent boys in Iowa. The analysis in this article is grounded in the daily lives of the boys who are incarcerated in the boot camp. Beyond the boy's perceptions of the boot camp as they expressed them, institutional structures and boot camp discourse are analyzed for the purpose of understanding the ways in which they shape the boys' ideas and everyday practices.
ISSN:0740-2708