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1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering--a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years--Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men's roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system's costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Returning incarcerated fathers to the family -- "Always having hope" : what we (didn't) know about fatherhood and incarceration -- "I do, but I don't, know where we are" : couple relationships during incarceration and reentry -- "None of the above" : unraveling complexity, ambivalence, and the limitations of research to understand abuse in justice-involved couples -- To be in jail for 10 years, change ain't going to happen overnight" : operationalizing reentry success -- "A breakthrough type of thing" : quantifying (and qualifying) the impact of family strengthening programs during incarceration and reentry -- On the horizon : the social science of incarceration and family life |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Male prisoners -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Male prisoners. |
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Families. |
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United States. |
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Prisoners' families.
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Prisoners' families. |
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Fathers -- Effect of imprisonment on.
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Fathers. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Fathers. |
| Added Author |
Comfort, Megan, author.
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Lindquist, Christine, author.
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Bir, Anupa, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McKay, Tasseli, 1978- Holding on. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520305243 (DLC) 2018058270 (OCoLC)1081363395 |
| ISBN |
9780520973312 electronic book |
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0520973313 electronic book |
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9780520305243 hardcover |
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0520305248 hardcover |
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9780520305250 paperback |
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0520305256 paperback |
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