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Families Shamed - The consequences of crime for relatives of serious offenders (Paperback)
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Families Shamed - The consequences of crime for relatives of serious offenders (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or
convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and
sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families,
but few studies have looked specifically at those related to
serious offenders, or considered their experience other than as
prison visitors. Many of the difficulties faced by 'mundane'
prisoners' families are magnified for the relatives of serious
offenders, first by the length of sentence, and secondly by the
seriousness and stigmatizing impact through association of the
offence itself.
Families Shamed draws upon intense qualitative research which
combines long, searching interviews with the relatives of serious
offenders with ethnographic fieldwork over a period of several
years. The book focuses on how relatives made sense of their
experiences, individually and collectively: how they described the
difficulties they faced; whether they were blamed and shamed and in
what manner; how they understood the offence and the circumstances
which had brought it about; and how they dealt with the
contradiction inherent in supporting someone and yet not condoning
his or her actions.
This is the first book to tell the story of serious offenders'
families, the difficulties they face, and their attempts to
overcome them. At the same time a focus on offenders' families also
draws our attention to the ways in which women are affected by
crime, illuminating the broader effects of crime and the criminal
justice process on the proportionately greater number of women
involved. It contributes also to wider debates about the social
organization of the meanings of crime, and questions the tenability
of some core policy assumptions about offenders and their families;
the relationship between the state and the family, and its bearing
especially on expectations about family responsibilities.
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