Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Incarceration

by Mark Halsey and Melissa de Vel-Palumbo

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815375166
• ISBN13: 9780815375166
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages