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Title Contemporary research and analysis on the children of prisoners : invisible children / edited by Liz Gordon.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Based on papers from the 2017 International Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents (INCCIP) conference in New Zealand.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary From back of book :" The papers in this collection cover many of the themes in the wider literature on the children of prisoners. Advocacy themes include moving towards child-friendly prison systems, using mass incarceration to influence wider social change, the effects of pre-trial detention on families, the particular issues in Hawaii and how detention procedures harm children
Contents Intro; Contents; Author Biographies; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Slipping Through the Cracks; Advocacy for Children's Rights; Punishing the Innocent; Crime and Punishment in the Land of Aloha; Kick in the Door, Wavin' the Four-Four; Responding to the Need of Children and Families of the Incarcerated; They Took My Parent Away; Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Against All Odds; Maintaining Family Ties; Connecticut's Children with Incarcerated Parents (CIP) Initiative at Central Connecticut State University; Support for Families of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence
What Little we KnowTYRO® Dads; Prison Staff who Shape Child and Family Visits; List of Speakers at INCCIP Conference, March 2017
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Children of prisoners -- Research -- Congresses.
Children of prisoners.
Research.
Children of prisoners -- Effect of imprisonment on -- Congresses.
Children of prisoners -- Effect of imprisonment on.
Psychology.
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Sociology & anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gordon, Liz, 1955- editor.
Added Title Invisible children
Other Form: Print version: Contemporary research and analysis on the children of prisoners. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527503593 (OCoLC)1020299226
ISBN 9781527511941 (electronic book)
1527511944 (electronic book)
1527503593
9781527503595