The impact of imprisonment on families

Codd, Helen

doi:10.4324/9781315102832-75

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“…Moreover, all of the women talked about other caring and generative roles they had with children, family and friends, not least with some of the women supporting the desistance of the men in their lives (Barr, 2019; Nugent & Schinkel, 2016; Hall & Harris, 2022). As Codd (2008) has argued, within families of incarcerated people, the burden of caring is likely to be placed on women. Traditional desistance discourse that centers generativity is often blind to the generative lives that criminalized women already lead.…”

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Working Together? Gendered Barriers to Employment and Desistance From Harm Amongst Criminalised English Women

Barr

2023

Feminist Criminology

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Drawing on narrative interviews with 16 criminalized women and a year of observation at English Women’s Centers, this study explores the women’s qualitative experiences of employment and volunteering. Findings indicate traditional perspectives on desistance from crime ignore the intersectional disadvantages women face. Criminalized women experience trauma and stigma that have long-lasting effects on their mental health. Women present as desisting from crime by taking on unpaid employment. This reinforces perspectives on desistance which disregard the many generative roles which women are often quietly involved in. This article contributes to emerging discourse around critical anti-carceral, intersectional feminist desistance ( Hale, 2020 )

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Working Together? Gendered Barriers to Employment and Desistance From Harm Amongst Criminalised English Women

Barr

2023

Feminist Criminology

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“…One family member participant described, for example, how their honesty with potential groups and organisations (such as running clubs, hospice volunteer work and food banks) about the prisoner they wished to link to the group was met supportively, which was unexpected due to the stigma they had previously encountered (Hall et al, 2018). This evidences how relational capital can be protective against the stigma of association with prisoners which is a significant problem for family members (Codd, 2008). Feedback from another family member also exemplifies the empowerment they experienced feeling 'like a small cog in the big picture of someone else's life.…”

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Justice capital: A model for reconciling structural and agentic determinants of desistance

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The emerging literature on desistance (and recovery from addictions) has focused on key life-course transitions that can be characterised as the need for jobs (meaningful activities), friends (transitioning to pro-social) and houses (a home free from threat). The term ‘recovery capital’ is used to characterise personal, social and community resources an individual can draw upon to support their recovery, partly bridging agentic (personal) and structural (community) factors. The development of the concept of ‘justice capital’ furthers this reconciliation, by focusing on resources an individual can access and the resources that an institution can provide. We build on this by outlining the concept of institutional justice capital (IJC) to examine the role of criminal justice institutions in supporting or suppressing justice capital, particularly for marginalised groups. We use a case study approach, drawing on recent studies in prisons in Australia and the United Kingdom to develop a model of justice capital at an institutional level and discuss how this can shape reform of prisons and can be matched to the needs of offenders. The paper concludes with a discussion of future directions in implementing an IJC model, to deliver a strengths-based approach to promoting desistance and creating a metric for assessing the rehabilitative activities of institutions.

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“…Thus, power relationship between established-outsider figurations meant that that even when mothers did try to resist stigmatisation of their The prison environment in relation to visiting was also of importance in reinforcing mother's outsider status which impacted on their mothering identity as well as their mothering behaviour 'stopping us from being proper mothers'. Moran (2012) has shown previously how the organisation, management and spatial dimensions of prisons not only impacts on the prisoner's emotions, but also those of their visitors with visits often being seen as a 'bittersweet experience' (Codd, 2008). Oppressive and restrictive visiting spaces where mothers were unable to move from their seat and unable to physically comfort their children served as reminders they were not 'normal mothers ' and Booth (2020: 33) has argued there are 'disparities between policy rhetoric' which puts emphasis on the importance of my little boy tries to make me get up and my 7-year-old makes excuses cos she knows I can't get up, it just makes me so ashamed that my daughters knows these things, what do they think (prison staff) I am going to do…they think I cannot be trusted and that makes me feel helpless as a mother…”

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Stigma, Outsider Status and Mothers in Prison

Morgan

Leeson

2023

Journal of Family Issues

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Drawing on Elias’s work on established-outsider figurations, stigmatisation and the civilising process, this study explores the narratives of women, who are mothers of children under the age of 18 years old, in one female prison in England, United Kingdom. We conducted 31 in-depth interviews as well as three focus groups with 26 different women, exploring their experiences of being an imprisoned mother as well as staying in contact with their children from prison. Moreover, we interviewed 15 members of staff. Our findings highlight the stigmatised ‘outsider’ nature that is ascribed to mothers in prison which is reinforced by the prison environment and figurations between mothers and prison staff. By highlighting the stigmatised and outsider positioning of mothers in prison, this research has significance for practice and policy. Improving support for imprisoned mothers and the development of non-stigmatising, more inclusive, compassionate institutions and compassionate responses are thus required.

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The impact of imprisonment on families

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Working Together? Gendered Barriers to Employment and Desistance From Harm Amongst Criminalised English Women

Working Together? Gendered Barriers to Employment and Desistance From Harm Amongst Criminalised English Women

Justice capital: A model for reconciling structural and agentic determinants of desistance

Stigma, Outsider Status and Mothers in Prison

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