Imprisoned Fathers

Catherine Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Australia. Her core research area is the intersection of criminal justice and social work. She has a keen interest in understanding and addressing the wider and unintended consequences of criminal justice policy on families.Michelle Butler is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her core research areas include penology, parental imprisonment, penal reform, and criminological psychology.

• Introduction – Imprisoned Fathers—Responding to Children 1. "They Didn’t Even Let Me Say Goodbye": A Study of Imprisoned Primary Carer Fathers’ Care Planning for Children at the Point of Arrest in Victoria, Australia 2. The (Dis)continuity of Parenthood Among Incarcerated Fathers: An Analysis of Caregivers’ Accounts 3. Developing a Child’s Right to Effective Contact with a Father in Prison—An Irish Perspective 4. Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Men in Social Interventions: Lessons for Implementation Focusing on a Prison-based Parenting Intervention for Young Incarcerated Fathers 5. Allowing Imprisoned Fathers to Parent: Maximising the Potential Benefits of Prison based Parenting Programmes 6. Does Fatherhood Training in Prison Improve Fathering Skills and Reduce Family Challenges? 7. Imprisoned Fathers and their Children: A Reflection on Two Decades of Research