| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Returning incarcerated fathers to the family -- "Always having hope" : what we (didn't) know about fatherhood and incarceration -- "I do, but I don't, know where we are" : couple relationships during incarceration and reentry -- "None of the above" : unraveling complexity, ambivalence, and the limitations of research to understand abuse in justice-involved couples -- To be in jail for 10 years, change ain't going to happen overnight" : operationalizing reentry success -- "A breakthrough type of thing" : quantifying (and qualifying) the impact of family strengthening programs during incarceration and reentry -- On the horizon : the social science of incarceration and family life |
| Summary |
Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering--a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years--Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men's roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system's costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families |
| Analysis |
activists |
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compelling |
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couples based surveys |
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criminal justice reform |
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incarceration and low income families |
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inmate and partner |
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justice involved men |
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offender and parent |
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parenting and intimate relationships |
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policymakers |
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qualitative interviews |
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scholars of incarceration and family |
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study of justice involved families |
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support vulnerable families |
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victim and perpetrator |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Male prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States
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Prisoners' families.
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Fathers -- Effect of imprisonment on
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Prisoners' families
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Comfort, Megan, author.
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Lindquist, Christine, author.
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Bir, Anupa, author.
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| LC no. |
2019000208 |
| ISBN |
9780520973312 |
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0520973313 |
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