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Families Shamed - The consequences of crime for relatives of serious offenders (Hardcover, New)
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Families Shamed - The consequences of crime for relatives of serious offenders (Hardcover, New)
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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