Holding On (eBook)

Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and Reentry

Tasseli McKay, Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, Anupa Bir (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
224 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97331-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering—a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years—Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men’s roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system’s costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Returning Incarcerated Fathers to the Family

2. “Always Having Hope”: What We (Didn’t) Know about Fatherhood and Incarceration

3. “I Do, but I Don’t, Know Where We Are”: Couple Relationships during Incarceration and Reentry

4. “None of the Above”: Partner Violence and the Limitations of Research

5. “Change Ain’t Going to Happen Overnight”: Operationalizing Reentry Success

6. “A Breakthrough Type of Thing”: Measuring the Impact of Family-Strengthening Programs during
Incarceration and Reentry

7. On the Horizon: The Social Science of Incarceration and Family Life

Appendix
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Activists • compelling • couples based surveys • Criminal Justice Reform • incarceration and low income families • inmate and partner • justice involved men • offender and parent • parenting and intimate relationships • policymakers • Qualitative Interviews • scholars of incarceration and family • study of justice involved families • support vulnerable families • victim and perpetrator
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97331-3 / 0520973313
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97331-2 / 9780520973312