Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

Rachel Condry is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hilda's College. She has previously been a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, and a lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Families Shamed: The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders (Willan, 2007), shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Rachel's work focuses on the intersection between crime and the family and has included studies on the families of serious offenders, parenting and youth justice, and adolescent to parent violence.Peter Scharff Smith is Professor in the Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. He has previously worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and has been a visiting scholar and researcher at, among other places NYU and Cambridge University. He has published numerous books and articles in Danish, English, and German on prisons, punishment, and human rights, including works on prison history, prisoner's children, and the use and effects of solitary confinement in prisons. He has also written books and articles on the Waffen-SS and the Nazi war of extermination at the Eastern front. His publications include more than ten research monographs and edited collections and more than seventy articles and chapters published in Scandinavian and international journals and books.

• 1: Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith: The Sociology of Punishment and the Effects of Imprisonment on Families I. PRISONERS' FAMILIES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY 2: Rachel Condry: Prisoners' Families and the Problem of Social Justice 3: Joyce A. Arditti: Parental Incarceration and Family Inequality in the United States 4: Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman: How Much Might Mass Imprisonment Affect Childhood Inequality? 5: Megan Comfort: 'I'm the man and he's the woman!': Gender Dynamics among Couples during and after Prison 6: Susan Dennison and Kirsten Besemer: Missing and Missing Out: Social Exclusion in Children with an Incarcerated Parent 7: Helene Oldrup and Signe Frederiksen: Are the Children of Prisoners Socially Excluded? A Child-Centred Perspective II. PENAL POWER AND HUMAN RIGHTS 8: Peter Scharff Smith: Prisoners' Families, Public Opinion, and the State: Punishment and Society from a Family and Human Rights Perspective 9: Shona Minson: 'The sins and traumas of fathers and mothers should not be visited on their children': The Rights of Children when a Primary Carer is sentenced to Imprisonment in the Criminal Courts 10: Nancy Loucks and Tania Loureiro: 'Someone should have just asked me what was wrong': Balancing Justice, Rights, and the Impact of Imprisonment on Children and Families in Scotland 11: Cara Jardine: Eroding Legitimacy? The Impact of Imprisonment on the Relationships between Families, Communities, and the Criminal Justice System 12: Caroline Lanskey, Friedrich Lösel, Lucy Markson, and Karen Souza: Prisoners' Families, Penal Power, and the Referred Pains of Imprisonment 13: Fiona Donson and Aisling Parkes: Rights and Security in the Shadow of the Irish Prison: Developing a Child Rights Approach to Prison Visits in Ireland III. THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PRISONERS' FAMILIES IN EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, AND AUSTRALIA 14: Mark Halsey: 'Everyone is in damage control': The Meanings and Performance of Family for Second and Third Generation Prisoners 15: Marie Hutton: The Legally Sanctioned Stigmatization of Prisoners 16: Anna Kotova: 'You get used to it. You adapt': The Pains of Imprisonment as Experienced by Long-Term Prisoners' Partners 17: Rafaela Granja: Sharing Imprisonment: Experiences of Prisoners and Family Members in Portugal 18: Shenique S. Thomas and Christian Johnna: Betwixt and Between: Incarcerated Men, Familial Ties, and Social Visibility 19: Else Marie Knudsen: The Systemic Invisibility of Children of Prisoners

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