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Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family (Paperback)
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Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family (Paperback)
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The criminal justice system has driven a wedge between black men
and their children. African American men are involved in the
criminal justice system, whether through incarceration, probation,
or parole, at near epidemic levels. At the same time, the criminal
justice system has made little or no institutional efforts to
maintain or support continuing relationships between these men and
their families. Consequently, African American families are harmed
by this in countless ways, from the psychological, physical, and
material suffering experienced by the men themselves, to losses
felt by their mates, children, and extended family members. The
volume opens with an introduction and brief review by R. Robin
Miller, Sandra Lee Browning, and Lisa M. Spruance, outlining the
impacts of incarceration on the African American family. Brad
Tripp, explores changes in family relationships and the identity of
incarcerated African American fathers. Mary Balthazar and Lula King
discuss the loss of the protective effect of marital and nonmarital
relationships and its impact on incarcerated African American men,
and the implications for African American men and those who work
with them in the helping professions. Theresa Clark explores the
relationship between visits by family and friends and the nature of
inmate behavior. In a research note, Olga Grinstead, Bonnie
Faigeles, Carrie Bancroft, and Barry Zack investigate the actual
costs families incur to maintain contact with family members, be it
emotional, social, or financial. Patricia E. O'Connor uses data
from sociolinguistic interviews of male inmates from a maximum
security prison to study how some of these men manage to continue
to fulfill the fatherhood role long-distance. In a concluding
chapter, Sandra Lee Browning, Robin Miller, and Lisa Spruance focus
on actions of the criminal justice system that undermine the black
family, on reasons that black male inmate fathers are studied so
rarely, and discuss the role restorative justice may play. This
insightful volume fills a void in the literature on the role of
African American men in the functioning of families. It will be of
interest to students of African American studies, social workers,
and policy makers.
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