This handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners' families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on imprisonment, this handbook encompasses a broad range of original, interdisciplinary and cross-national research. This volume includes the experiences of those from countries often unrepresented in the prisoner's families' literature such as Russia, Australia, Israel and Canada. This broad coverage allows readers to consider how prisoners' families are affected by imprisonment in countries embracing very different penal philosophies; ranging from the hyper-incarceration being experienced in the USA to the less punitive, more welfare-orientated practices under Scandinavian 'exceptionalism'. Chapters are contributed by scholars from numerous and diverse disciplines ranging from law, nursing, criminology, psychology, human geography, and education studies. Furthermore, contributions span various methodological and epistemological approaches with important contributions from NGOs working in this area at a national and supranational level. The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family makes a significant contribution to knowledge about who prisoners' families are and what this status means in practice. It also recognises the autonomy and value of prisoners' families as a research subject in their own right.

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Marie Hutton is lecturer in law at the University of Sussex, UK. Driven by her own experiences of familial imprisonment, Marie's research focusses on the lived experience of family contact in prisons and human rights from a socio-legal perspective.

Dominique Moran is Reader in Carceral Geography at the University of Birmingham. Her work is transdisciplinary, informed by and extending theoretical developments in geography, criminology and prison sociology, but also interfacing with contemporary debates over hyper-incarceration, recidivism and the advance of the punitive state. She has completed an interdisciplinary ESRC research project looking into women's experience of imprisonment in contemporary Ru`ssia.

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1.      Introduction

Marie A. Hutton and Dominique Moran

Section One Contemporary Issues: Understanding Prisoners' Families

2.      Prisoners' Families Research :  Developments,  Debates  and Directions Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson, Karen Souza and Friedrich Lösel

3.      Inmate  Social  Ties,  Recidivism,  and  Continuing  Questions  About  Prison  Visitation

Joshua C. Cochran

4.      Developments and  Next  Steps  in  Theorizing  the  Secondary  Prisonization of Families

Megan Comfort 5.      Who  are  Prisoners'  Family  Members?:  Towards an  Holistic  and  Intersectional  Framework

Johnna Christian

6.      A  holistic  approach  to  prisoners'  families    from  arrest  to  release

Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith

7.      Opportunities and challenges for work on behalf of families affected by imprisonment; the experience of Families Outside

Nancy Loucks

Section Two

Different perspectives: Widening the lens 8.      Experiences of Male Partners of Women Prisoners in Israel

Tomer Einat

9.      The Traumatic Bereavement of Children Experiencing the Loss of a Loved One to Death Row

Sandra Joy, Elizabeth Beck and Ashley Hurley

10.  Relatives of Registered Sex Offenders: Considering the Costs of Providing Family Support

David Patrick Connor

11.  Partners of  Incarcerated  Men: Questioning Caring Stereotypes

Karen Souza, Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson and Friedrich Lösel

Section Three

Engaging with the prison

12.  A Comparison of the position of Grandmother Carers for children with parents in prison in the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania and Uganda

Ben Raikes, Romeo Asiminei, Alexandra Cuza, Karene Nathaniel-Decaires, Eric Ochen, George Pascaru and Gloria Seruwagi

13.  Families' experiences in a prison visitors' centre

Rebecca Foster

14.  Prison Visitation as Accessible Engagement: Encounters, Bystanders, Performance and Inattention

Dominique Moran and Tom Disney

15.  Acorn House Revisited: 'Think Family, Up and Down and Side to Side'

Ben Raikes and Kelly Lockwood

Section Four

Recognising the rights of Prisoners' Families

16.  The Rights of Children with an Imprisoned Parent in the Republic of Ireland

Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson

17.  Hearing Children's Voices in Studies of Familial Incarceration: Experiences from a Canadian Study

Else Marie Knudsen

18.  The Rights of Children of Imprisoned Parents

Helen Codd

19.  A Labour of Love: The Experiences of Parents of Prisoners and their role as Human Rights Protectors

Marie A. Hutton

Section Five

Beyond Imprisonment 20.  Reflecting on the Value(s) of Family Interventions for People subject to Punishment in the Community

Becky Clarke, Rachel Kinsella and Craig Fletcher 21.  Mothering under Community Criminal Justice Supervision in the United States

D.R. Gina Sissoko and Lorie Goshin 22.  Interge...