Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry - Presencing As a Framework and Method

This book conceptualizes family reentry in terms of the untapped potential evident in the lived experiences of incarcerated fathers. It draws on postphenomenological concepts and real-life examples from Europe and the United States to frame a method for keeping fathers intimately engaged in the day-to-day lives of their children, even from afar.

List of contents

Introduction: The Presencing of Families
1. Sleepwalking or Wide Awake?
2. The Context of Family Absence and Presence
3. Presencing: Framework as Method
4. Being Father
5. Becoming Family
6. The Potentiality of Being and Becoming
7. Futurity as False Policy
8. Family Presence in European Prisons
9. Family Presence in American Prisons
Conclusion: Ten Postulates for Family Presencing

About the author

William Muth is professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Product details

• Authors: William Muth
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2020
• EAN: 9781498547802
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4780-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Social History, Coping with drug & alcohol abuse, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural history, Age groups: children, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Sociology: family and relationships, Gender studies: men and boys, Black & Asian Studies, Gender Studies: Men, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General