Supporting Families, Promoting Desistance? Exploring the Impact of Imprisonment on Family Relationships

Jardine, Cara

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95185-7_8

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“…Most of them expected to maintain the reported good relationship after leaving prison. However, a year after release, only 3 out of 11 participants who had children (all desisting from crime) reported a good relationship with their child(ren) – although the family situation was often not conventional in the traditional sense of the mother and father living together with their children (see also Jardine, 2017). For information on how to be a good father, the men could not rely on any traditional identity scripts.…”

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House, bells and bliss? A longitudinal analysis of conventional aspirations and the process of desistance

Doekhie

Ginneken

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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Various studies have pointed to identity change and cognitive transformation as important predictors of desistance. Yet, even persistent offenders have conventional aspirations, which include a job, a house and a family. This article examines the development of conventional aspirations of 23 Dutch (ex-)prisoners using qualitative longitudinal data. Findings show no association between conventional aspirations and desistance as both desisters and persisters expressed conventional goals ('house, bells and bliss'). A lack of substance and detailed scripts to flesh out the essence of the desired conventional roles meant it could be difficult to turn vague ideals into concrete action pathways. Finally, conventional aspirations and criminal lifestyles were not mutually exclusive; some of the persistent offenders used criminal pathways to fulfil conventional roles.

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House, bells and bliss? A longitudinal analysis of conventional aspirations and the process of desistance

Doekhie

Ginneken

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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“…As well as empowering children with skills in selective disclosure and opportunities to talk, there is value in offering information and advice to parents and other family members in order to enable them to provide information in a sensitive and appropriate way to children and to support families to discuss concerns (Jardine, 2017). Manby (2014) suggests that stability at home is closely linked to being able to cope with parental imprisonment.…”

Section: Strengthening Family Resilience Through Education In Selectimentioning

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Growing Up with Parental Imprisonment: Children’s Experiences of Managing Stigma, Secrecy and Shame

McGinley¹,

Jones²

2018

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Each year, parental imprisonment affects approximately 27,000 children and young people in Scotland. Research that focuses on the views and experiences of the children and young people affected by parental imprisonment has highlighted the dominance of stigma, secrecy and shame in the lives of such children. This paper reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study which sought the accounts of six young people aged between 13 and 26 whose biological father was, or had been, imprisoned. The paper explores the impact of stigma on day-today experiences in childhood and on the emotional and social wellbeing of young people. Young people described this in terms of growing up too fast and revealed ways in which they managed these adversities. Overwhelmingly the young people displayed considerable resilience in the face of extreme challenges and were able to identify positive outcomes of parental imprisonment such as personal growth. In order to promote resilience, we identify a need for public education to challenge social stigma; training for families in selective disclosure and supportive relationships for children.

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“…In addition, relationships can influence primary or act desistance, alongside secondary or identity desistance as they can have a direct influence on offending behaviour and/or an individual's identity. However, it may not be the relationship that influences desistance, but the meaning behind it (Jardine, 2017). Therefore, recognising trauma, emotion and attachment is fundamental when considering desistance or continued offending and the potential link to bereavement and loss.…”

Section: Relationships and Desistance: Exploring Emotion And Attachme...mentioning

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Negotiating bereavement and loss: Influencing persistence and desistance from crime

Rutter

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Much previous research has considered experiences of bereavement and loss in a prison-based setting. This overshadows the nature of bereavement within the context of community supervision and probation delivery, resulting in inadequate explorations of the potential link to persistence and/or desistance from crime. Research into desistance has predominantly focused on relationships with those who are still alive. This article evidences an emergent theme of bereavement experiences within the context of probation delivery, relationships and desistance. It draws upon narrative research undertaken within a Community Rehabilitation Company in the north of England, collected as part of a doctoral thesis. Evidence demonstrates the similarities between the process of desistance and that of bereavement with the narratives of men and women reiterating how bereavement can influence the onset of criminal or risk-taking behaviour whilst highlighting emergent evidence on how bereavement can disrupt desistance. This enables the article to highlight the importance of resilience in the process of both bereavement and desistance.

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Supporting Families, Promoting Desistance? Exploring the Impact of Imprisonment on Family Relationships

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

House, bells and bliss? A longitudinal analysis of conventional aspirations and the process of desistance

House, bells and bliss? A longitudinal analysis of conventional aspirations and the process of desistance

Growing Up with Parental Imprisonment: Children’s Experiences of Managing Stigma, Secrecy and Shame

Negotiating bereavement and loss: Influencing persistence and desistance from crime

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