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Sommario
1. Intergenerational Incarceration in Context, 2. Getting and Analysing the Data, 3. The Ubiquity of Trauma and Loss, 4. Three Generations Through Prison, 5. Prison as Homecoming, 6. Prison as Criminogenic Event, 7. The Fortunate Few: Evading Intergenerational Incarceration 8. Concluding Remarks
Info autore
Mark Halsey is a Professor of Criminology, Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Australia. His recent books include Tackling Correctional Corruption: An Integrity Promoting Approach (co-authors Andrew Goldsmith and Andrew Groves) and Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance (co-author Simone Deegan).
Melissa de Vel-Palumbo is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University. Her work focuses on offender needs, rehabilitation, and community responses to crime. She has also trained as a forensic psychologist.
Riassunto
The book examines the causes, experiences and consequences of intergenerational incarceration; building on data from prisoners across Australia, UK and the USA, it offers unique insights into its dimensions, and its impacts on prisoners’ lives.
Testo aggiuntivo
"Generations through Prison is an important book that challenges common-sense understandings of the relationship between crime, imprisonment and the family… (it) is empirically rich and written accessibly enough for both academics and professionals. Criminologists working in the fields of prisons and crime and the family will find in Generations through Prison a much-needed complex interpretation of intergenerational incarceration beyond the view that criminality and imprisonment are passed down from one generation to the next… This book will undoubtedly inspire further study and hopefully encourage future scholars to gather dense empirical data and use it for both a rigorous theoretical examination of the deleterious effects of imprisonment, as well as a rethink about the justifiability of prison itself."
Jasmina Arnez, University of Oxford, UK, Criminology and Criminal Justice
