Description
Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners’ families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on imprisonment, this handbook encompasses a broad range of original, interdisciplinary and cross-national research. This volume includes the experiences of those from countries often unrepresented in the prisoner’s families’ literature such as Russia, Australia, Israel and Canada. This broad coverage allows readers to consider how prisoners’ families are affected by imprisonment in countries embracing very different penal philosophies; ranging from the hyper-incarceration being experienced in the USA to the less punitive, more welfare-orientated practices under Scandinavian ‘exceptionalism’.
Chapters are contributed by scholars from numerous and diverse disciplines ranging from law, nursing, criminology, psychology, human geography, and education studies. Furthermore, contributions span various methodological and epistemological approaches with important contributions from NGOs working in this area at a national and supranational level. The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family makes a significant contribution to knowledge about who prisoners’ families are and what this status means in practice. It also recognises the autonomy and value of prisoners’ families as a research subject in their own right.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Marie A. Hutton and Dominique Moran
Section One
Contemporary Issues: Understanding Prisoners’ Families
2. Prisoners’ Families Research : Developments, Debates and Directions
Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson, Karen Souza and Friedrich Lösel 3. Inmate Social Ties, Recidivism, and Continuing Questions About Prison Visitation
Joshua C. Cochran
4. Developments and Next Steps in Theorizing the Secondary Prisonization of Families
Megan Comfort
5. Who are Prisoners’ Family Members?: Towards an Holistic and Intersectional Framework
Johnna Christian
6. A holistic approach to prisoners’ families – from arrest to release
Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith
7. Opportunities and challenges for work on behalf of families affected by imprisonment; the experience of Families Outside
Nancy Loucks
Section Two
Different perspectives: Widening the lens
8. Experiences of Male Partners of Women Prisoners in Israel
Tomer Einat
9. The Traumatic Bereavement of Children Experiencing the Loss of a Loved One to Death Row
Sandra Joy, Elizabeth Beck and Ashley Hurley
10. Relatives of Registered Sex Offenders: Considering the Costs of Providing Family Support
David Patrick Connor
11. Partners of Incarcerated Men: Questioning Caring Stereotypes
Karen Souza, Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson and Friedrich Lösel
Section Three
Engaging with the prison
12. A Comparison of the position of Grandmother Carers for children with parents in prison in the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania and Uganda
Ben Raikes, Romeo Asiminei, Alexandra Cuza, Karene Nathaniel-Decaires, Eric Ochen, George Pascaru and Gloria Seruwagi
13. Families’ experiences in a prison visitors’ centre
Rebecca Foster
14. Prison Visitation as Accessible Engagement: Encounters, Bystanders, Performance and Inattention
Dominique Moran and Tom Disney
15. Acorn House Revisited: ‘Think Family, Up and Down and Side to Side’
Ben Raikes and Kelly Lockwood
Section Four
Recognising the rights of Prisoners’ Families
16. The Rights of Children with an Imprisoned Parent in the Republic of Ireland
Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson
17. Hearing Children’s Voices in Studies of Familial Incarceration: Experiences from a Canadian Study
Else Marie Knudsen
18. The Rights of Children of Imprisoned Parents
Helen Codd
19. A Labour of Love: The Experiences of Parents of Prisoners and their role as Human Rights Protectors
Marie A. Hutton
Section Five
Beyond Imprisonment
20. Reflecting on the Value(s) of Family Interventions for People subject to Punishment in the Community
Becky Clarke, Rachel Kinsella and Craig Fletcher
21. Mothering under Community Criminal Justice Supervision in the United States
D.R. Gina Sissoko and Lorie Goshin
22. Intergeneration Transmission of Criminal Behaviour
Sytske Besemer and Laura Bui
23. Intergenerational Social Exclusion in prisoners’ families
Kirsten Besemer and Susan Dennison
24. School Experiences of Children of Prisoners: Strengthening Support in Schools in England and Wales
Julia Morgan and Caroline Leeson
