The perceived benefits of an arts project for health and wellbeing of older offenders
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Wilkinson, Dean J.
Caulfield, Laura S.
Abstract / Description
The increasing ageing prison population is becoming a pressing issue throughout the criminal justice system. Alongside the rising population, are a host of health and wellbeing issues that contribute to older offenders needs whilst in prison. It has been recommended that meaningful activities can have positive effects on this population and therefore this paper uniquely reviews older offenders accounts of taking part in an arts based project, Good Vibrations, whilst imprisoned. The Good Vibrations project engages individuals in Gamelan music making with an end of project performance. This study used independent in-depth interviews to capture the voices of older offenders who took part in an art based prison project. The interview data was analysed using thematic analysis, which highlighted themes that were consistent with other populations who have taken part in a Good Vibrations project, along with specific age relating issues of mobility, motivation, identity and wellbeing.
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ageing prison population older offender arts in prison prisoner health artsPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2017-03-03
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
13
Issue
1
Page numbers
16–27
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Wilkinson, D. J., & Caulfield, L. S. (2017). The perceived benefits of an arts project for health and wellbeing of older offenders. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(1), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1207
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Wilkinson, Dean J.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Caulfield, Laura S.
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Date of first publication2017-03-03
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Abstract / DescriptionThe increasing ageing prison population is becoming a pressing issue throughout the criminal justice system. Alongside the rising population, are a host of health and wellbeing issues that contribute to older offenders needs whilst in prison. It has been recommended that meaningful activities can have positive effects on this population and therefore this paper uniquely reviews older offenders accounts of taking part in an arts based project, Good Vibrations, whilst imprisoned. The Good Vibrations project engages individuals in Gamelan music making with an end of project performance. This study used independent in-depth interviews to capture the voices of older offenders who took part in an art based prison project. The interview data was analysed using thematic analysis, which highlighted themes that were consistent with other populations who have taken part in a Good Vibrations project, along with specific age relating issues of mobility, motivation, identity and wellbeing.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationWilkinson, D. J., & Caulfield, L. S. (2017). The perceived benefits of an arts project for health and wellbeing of older offenders. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(1), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1207
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1037
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1229
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1207
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Keyword(s)ageing prison populationen_US
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Keyword(s)older offenderen_US
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Keyword(s)arts in prisonen_US
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Keyword(s)prisoner healthen_US
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Keyword(s)artsen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleThe perceived benefits of an arts project for health and wellbeing of older offendersen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers16–27
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Volume13
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