Whose punishment, whose crime? Understanding parenting and partnership in a time of mass incarceration

McKay, Tasseli; Comfort, Megan; Grove, Lexie; Bir, Anupa; Lindquist, Christine

doi:10.1080/10509674.2017.1294640

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“…Paradoxically, participants reported that shifting the conversation to concrete content and avoiding discussing their female partners’ difficulties and distress led many of the latter to complain. This, in turn, caused additional stress (see also McKay et al, 2018; Turney, 2015):I remember she used to complain that I talked more about my practical things when I was in prison and less about what she was feeling. She wanted me to talk to her about the things she was going through, and I wanted to be concrete.…”

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“…(T,44,20YR,9MP) Paradoxically, participants reported that shifting the conversation to concrete content and avoiding discussing their female partners' difficulties and distress led many of the latter to complain. This, in turn, caused additional stress (see also McKay et al, 2018;Turney, 2015):…”

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confidence: 99%

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“The Course of Love Never Did Run Smooth”: Ex-Inmates’ Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Romantic Relationships

Granot

Einat

2022

The Prison Journal

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This study examines the attitudes of 15 male ex-inmates toward heterosexual romantic relationships during imprisonment as viewed retrospectively. The interviewees expressed ambivalence regarding these intimate partnerships, which were a source of difficulty in prison and upon reentry into society. We conclude that prison services could better help inmates to improve these relationships, thus reducing the pains of imprisonment and enhancing their successful social reintegration.

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“The Course of Love Never Did Run Smooth”: Ex-Inmates’ Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Romantic Relationships

Granot

Einat

2022

The Prison Journal

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“…They also generally feel that they have no control during their partners' detention (Tadros, 2021). Likewise, they feel that their connections are very controlled and removed (Comfort et al, 2018;McKay et al, 2018;Tadros et al, 2021;Tadros & Finney, 2018;Tadros & Ogden, 2020). Furthermore, Goffnett et al (2021) reported that feelings of disgrace and pride have an association with friendly reality, beneficial encounters of minority stress and strength, and an impression of self.…”

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The Last Lick: A Lived Experience of Non-incarcerated Partners

Adetunji

Gathoni

Kamau

2023

ESJ

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The incarceration of their partners has a profound effect on them and affects them differently from other family members. But what are these effects, and what are the results? The purpose of this study was to (1) assess the notable feelings experienced by non-incarcerated partners and (2) understand the implications of these feelings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 female participants who had their partners incarcerated at Nigeria's Agodi-Ibadan Medium Correctional Facility. An interpretative phenomenological approach was employed to analyse their lived experience with Satir's model. Thirteen sub-themes derived from feelings revealed the participants' frustration, pain, and hurt; betrayal and anxiety; anger, confusion, and interruption; hostility, hunt, and fear; sadness, shame, and humiliation; being depressed and incarcerated; being surprised and in denial; being confused and helpless; being sorry and suffering double losses; being controlled as well as feeling relieved. This study found that 40% of participants felt frustrated, angry, interrupted, and hunted, while 30% felt hurt, bitter, or humiliated, and 20% felt betrayed, incarcerated, in denial, confused, or had a sense of relief while their partners were incarcerated. These experiences intensified the impacts of their partners’ incarceration. The study has recommendations for marriage and family specialists.

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“…The collateral negative effects of parental incarceration on children and families are both well-known and empirically documented. Children of prisoners may, for instance, suffer from anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues (McKay et al., 2018); attachment insecurity (Poehlmann and Eddy, 2013; Shlafer and Poehlmann, 2010); difficulties learning in school; eating disorders, and insomnia, and they are also prone to behave antisocially (see e.g. Arditti, 2012; Murray et al., 2012).…”

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Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

Markussen

Knutz

2020

Punishment & Society

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Narrative criminology has successfully demonstrated how the construction and structure of self-narratives are important for prisoners’ process of change and desistance from crime. However, much of this work has tended to focus narrowly on the offender and how he or she uses self-narrative to relate to the offense, the victim, past childhood, the family, or projected hopes for future change. In an effort to extend prior work, this study takes a complementary approach by analyzing how children and their long-term incarcerated fathers in Danish maximum-security prisons talk about family relations and cohesiveness during imprisonment. To address the gap in research and methodology, we introduce the notion of family narratives, and through microanalyses of in-depth interviews with seven prisoners and seven children, we extract three kinds of family narratives. These narratives were prompted by using a board game recently implemented into the visiting program in Danish prisons to help children and prisoners to re-construct disrupted family relations. Our findings illuminate how the design of a game can be a novel method for collecting data on children and incarcerated fathers and how family narratives can serve as lenses for studying fragile family identity, masculinity, and child–parent relations.

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Whose punishment, whose crime? Understanding parenting and partnership in a time of mass incarceration

Cited by 26 publications

References 56 publications

“The Course of Love Never Did Run Smooth”: Ex-Inmates’ Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Romantic Relationships

“The Course of Love Never Did Run Smooth”: Ex-Inmates’ Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Romantic Relationships

The Last Lick: A Lived Experience of Non-incarcerated Partners

Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

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