Holding On

Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and Reentry

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

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30524-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Tasseli McKay is Social Science Researcher with the Victimization and Resilience program at RTI International. Megan Comfort is Senior Research Sociologist with the Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice program at RTI International. She is the author of Doing Time Together. Christine Lindquist is Director of the Corrections and Reentry Research program at RTI International. Anupa Bir is Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w line art
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30524-8 / 0520305248
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30524-3 / 9780520305243
Zustand	Neuware