An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre

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dc.contributor.advisorMoult, Kelley
dc.contributor.authorVan Rooyen, Karla
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-01T08:53:10Z
dc.date.available2025-04-01T08:53:10Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-04-01T08:51:55Z
dc.description.abstractIn South Africa, there has been a lack of research on female offenders' incarceration experience. Research shows that female offenders are a vulnerable group with specific needs that deserve specialised treatment options. Yoga has become very popular as a holistic rehabilitation programme within many correctional centres, including South Africa. Yoga has become a symbolic resource that offenders can use to make sense of their incarceration experience and re(construct) their self-perception, while still incorporating ‘peace-making-mechanisms' that fit into correctional centres' agenda. This study explores the impact of a yoga programme called ‘The Freedom Project' in Worcester Correctional Centre. The objective of this study was to determine whether or not yoga could transform female offenders' behavioural patterns and help them cope with the pains of imprisonment. A qualitative research design allowed for rich accounts of the participants' yoga experience. The interviews were conducted with a panel of nine female offenders who participated in the yoga programme. While the design of the study makes it difficult to generalize the findings to the wider offending population, the participants nonetheless offered evidence that yoga is a life-affirming experience with a range of transformational consequences. The results of the study showed that the yoga programme allows for an open framework, and freedom of self-exploration and meets the goals of being a more women-centred and holistic approach within prison reform.
dc.identifier.apacitationVan Rooyen, K. (2024). <i>An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationVan Rooyen, Karla. <i>"An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Rooyen, K. 2024. An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Van Rooyen, Karla AB - In South Africa, there has been a lack of research on female offenders' incarceration experience. Research shows that female offenders are a vulnerable group with specific needs that deserve specialised treatment options. Yoga has become very popular as a holistic rehabilitation programme within many correctional centres, including South Africa. Yoga has become a symbolic resource that offenders can use to make sense of their incarceration experience and re(construct) their self-perception, while still incorporating ‘peace-making-mechanisms' that fit into correctional centres' agenda. This study explores the impact of a yoga programme called ‘The Freedom Project' in Worcester Correctional Centre. The objective of this study was to determine whether or not yoga could transform female offenders' behavioural patterns and help them cope with the pains of imprisonment. A qualitative research design allowed for rich accounts of the participants' yoga experience. The interviews were conducted with a panel of nine female offenders who participated in the yoga programme. While the design of the study makes it difficult to generalize the findings to the wider offending population, the participants nonetheless offered evidence that yoga is a life-affirming experience with a range of transformational consequences. The results of the study showed that the yoga programme allows for an open framework, and freedom of self-exploration and meets the goals of being a more women-centred and holistic approach within prison reform. DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - correctional centre, female offenders, incarceration LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2024 T1 - An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre TI - An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationVan Rooyen K. An exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Department of Public Law, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41315en_ZA
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.rfc3066ENG
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Public Law
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectcorrectional centre, female offenders, incarceration
dc.titleAn exploration of female offenders' yoga experience in Worcester's correctional centre
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelLLM
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