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Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy - The Cost of Custodial Penalties (Paperback)
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Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy - The Cost of Custodial Penalties (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family
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This book examines what it means to be a family within the
restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of
imprisonment. Drawing on original qualitative data, it looks beyond
traditional models of the family to examine the question of which
relationships matter to individuals affected by imprisonment, and
demonstrates how family relationships are actively constructed and
maintained through family "practices" and "displays" such as
visits, shared experiences and continuing family memories and
traditions. It sheds new light not only on the true extent of who
is impacted by the imposition of a prison sentence, but also the
barriers to family life that these individuals encounter throughout
its duration. This book also contributes to our understanding of
wider issues such as poverty and social marginalisation, the role
of family relationships on desistance from crime, and legitimacy.
It argues that the act of supporting an individual in custody can
bring families into regular contact with the criminal justice
system in ways that can be both distressing and problematic, and
therefore contends that the prison system should minimise the
damage caused by imprisonment not only to family relationships, but
also to the perceived legitimacy of the criminal justice system.
Generating new conceptual insights into the harms of imprisonment
and how perceptions of legitimacy and fairness are shaped by the
criminal justice system, this book will be of much interest to
students of criminology and sociology engaged in studies of
criminal justice, prisons, gender, social work, and punishment. It
will also be of interest to policy makers, penal-reformers, and
activists.
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