Abstract
ABSTRACT Empirical evidence suggests that postsecondary education for offenders within the Texas prison population is an effective means of reducing recidivism. This article is an interpretative essay attempting to understand these beneficial effects. It contrasts the naïve interpretation of enhanced offender agency with Foucault's powers of normalization as the foreground for a larger discussion of what it means to help. It suggests a theoretical framework for client empowerment that embraces the ideal of parity of control between the extremes of subversive agency and the social power of normalization.
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