Families, Imprisonment and Legitimacy: The Cost of Custodial Penalties

ISBN-13: 9781138329348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 160 str.

Cara Jardine

Opis

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive and distressing context of imprisonment. It sheds new light on the barriers to family life experienced by prisoners, and on our understanding of wider issues such as poverty and social marginalisation, the role of family relationships on desistance from crime, and legitimacy.

Spis treści

1. Theorising Families Affected by Imprisonment; 2. Difference; 3. Sameness; 4. Being a Family; 5. Entrenching Marginalisation; 6. Beyond the Family: Prisons and Legitimacy; 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Cara Jardine joined the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde in 2017, after completing her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include imprisonment, punishment, inequalities, gender, and poverty, and she has a particular interest in qualitative and feminist research methods. Cara was recently awarded a Leverhulme Early Career fellowship to develop new research into people’s experiences of community from within prison, the permeability of the prison wall, and the resulting implications for citizenship, legitimacy, and reintegration.