Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Incarceration

by Melissa de Vel-Palumbo and Mark Halsey

Around one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent. Many such prisoners attest to the long-term negative effects of parental incarceration on one's own sense of self and on the range and quality of opportunities for building a conventional life. And yet, the problem of intergenerational incarceration has received only passing attention from academics, and virtually little if any consideration from policy makers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032081740
• ISBN13: 9781032081748
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"