Navigating the Arts-in-Corrections Research Landscape

Authors

  • Amanda J. Gardner Southwest Correctional Arts Network

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33009/fsop_ijci140372

Keywords:

arts-in-corrections, research, Prison Arts Resource Project, Evidence Library

Abstract

This article presents a brief history of arts and arts programs in criminal justice settings followed by an account of research into the field. It ends with a discussion of two bibliographies which make research easily accessible to a wide audience can be used by a diverse audience of stakeholders to promote the case for arts-in-corrections research.

Author Biography

Amanda J. Gardner, Southwest Correctional Arts Network

Amanda J. Gardner, PhD, is co-author of Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections: International Perspectives on Methods, Journeys and Challenges and of the Prison Arts Resource Project, an annotated bibliography of research on U.S. arts-in-corrections.  

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Cover image is a painting with the viewer’s perspective from inside a jail cell. Its concrete walls are broken, showing the world outside those walls with barb wire fences and a guard tower. But through the bars of the closed door one can see green grass, a leafy tree, and blue sky.

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2026-05-20

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Gardner, A. J. (2026). Navigating the Arts-in-Corrections Research Landscape. International Journal for Creativity Inside, 1(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.33009/fsop_ijci140372

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026)

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