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Table 1 A CMO of a prison rehabilitation programme, adapted from Pawson and Tilley [2], p113

From: Combining Realist approaches and Normalization Process Theory to understand implementation: a systematic review

Context

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Mechanism

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Outcome

Prisoners with little or no previous education with a growing string of convictions – representing a ‘disadvantaged’ background

 

Modest levels of engagement and success with the progam trigger ‘rehabilitation’ process in which the inmate experiences self-realization and social acceptability (for the first time)

 

Lowest levels of reconviction as compared with statistical norm for such inmates.