Description
Book SynopsisIt has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing material and emotional support offered through family, prisoners can have a stronger commitment to move towards prosocial pathways via these important social ties. Yet, often overlooked are the experiences of families themselves in providing support for prisoners. This book focuses on parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face â from violence, psychological stress, to stigma and shame â the book provides one of the first empirical assessments of the ways parents manage the consequences of serious crime and navigate relationships with their children in prison.
As well as documenting major social hardships of imprisonment, the book will also assess the heterogeneous impacts on relationships between parents and their male children, including cases where relationships ma
Table of Contents
1.Introduction 2.The Complexity of Youth-Parent Relationships 3.Parent-Child Lives Before Prison 4.The Challenges of Visitation 5.Adapting and Coping with Imprisonment 6.Conclusion
