Concluding Thoughts: Ten Reasons Why Community-Based Participatory Research Can Transform Women’s Prisons

This chapter (our conclusion), “Ten Reasons Why Community-Based Participatory Research Can Transform Women’s Prisons,” uses examples from the preceding four chapters to reiterate CBPR’s many benefits by: (1) providing leadership opportunities for women; (2) maximizing scarce resources; (3) encouraging a team-based, holistic approach to everyday prison administration; (4) socializing newly arrived women into positive socio-institutional norms; (5) promoting institutional legitimacy; (6) transferring skills learned to the free world; (7) increasing long-term worker caliber; (8) saving taxpayer funds; (9) providing state- and institution-specific research; and (10) building a foundation for continued success.