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Inmate Perceptions: The Impact of a Prison Animal Training Program Background
Debra Mims
Criminal Justice, Social Work Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida United States Jessie Holton, 700 Park Avenue, Titusville, Florida 32780, United States
Rhondda Waddell
Criminal Justice, Social Work Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida United States Jessie Holton, 700 Park Avenue, Titusville, Florida 32780, United States
Jessie Holton
Criminal Justice, Social Work Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida United States Jessie Holton, 700 Park Avenue, Titusville, Florida 32780, United States
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18063/esp.v7.i1.753
Keywords: Animal assisted therapy, Service animals, Prison animal training
Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of jail inmates participating in the Paws and Stripes College program. The Paws and Stripes College program involves incarcerated inmates training local humane shelter canines’ obedience training techniques using the canine good citizen model as well as teaching the canines skills in which to participate as comfort/emotional support dogs. Using secondary data from self-report questionnaires completed by the inmates, this study sought to explore how the inmates felt before and after their exposure to the Paws and Stripes College program. Specifically, if the inmates felt that participation in the program was beneficial to them or not, and if so, how.
Author Biography
Debra Mims, Criminal Justice, Social Work Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, Florida United States Jessie Holton, 700 Park Avenue, Titusville, Florida 32780, United States
Dr. Mims is an Assistant Professor of Education with the School of Education and Social Sciences and teaches in the Department of Criminal Justice. She has been a member of the Saint Leo Community since 2011.Dr. Mims received her doctoral degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Criminal Justice from Northcentral University. Dr. Mims has taught at the Pasco-Hernando State College Police Academy and the Hillsborough Community College Police Academy. Dr. Mims is a retired Tampa Police officer where she served on the Mounted Patrol Unit, Bicycle Unit, worked as an Undercover and Community Service Officer. She was also a child abuse, elderly abuse and domestic violence investigator. Dr. Mims is a certified firearms instructor as well as a CPR/BLS instructor.
Dr. Mims teaches a variety of criminal justice courses within the Department of Criminal Justice. Her research passion is the animal/human bond and animal-assisted interventions that contribute to the health and well-being in the lives of individuals, both young and old.
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