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Results for children of prisoners (australia)
2 results foundAuthor: Field-Pimm, Melanie Title: Parenting Status of Community Correctional Clients: Informing Service Planning Summary: No single agency or government department routinely collects data about the parental status of offenders or the characteristics or needs of offenders' families and children. This lack of hard data is partly responsible for difficulties in planning and targeting of services. More broadly, the lack of data prevents rational discussion of this issue. As a result, the population of parents, children and families is 'unmonitored, under-researched and unsupported by the statutory sector' (Murray, 2007:55). In response, this paper recommends a planned approach for informed service delivery aimed at improving the family circumstances of offenders who are also parents in Victoria. The data collected in this project represents a first step towards this planning. The Victorian Correctional System itself already has a number of responses in place for offenders who are parents. These include the Springhill Unit in Marngoneet Correctional Centre (designed to provide a targeted parenting program for fathers), the Mother & Baby Units in the Women's Prisons, and The Family Support Service at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Community based organisations offer a myriad of individual services. However these are i) ad hoc and ii) connected to correctional centres rather than the community correctional system. Partly as a result of recent legislative changes to the application of Parole in Victoria coming into effect as of September 2013, the number of parole breaches has increased. It is anticipated that this will significantly impact on families, particularly when the offender is a parent and is moving through or back to a period of incarceration due to the breach. Details: Melbourne: Victorian Association for the Care & Resettlement of Offenders, 2014. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 17, 2014 at: http://www.vacro.org.au/Portals/0/PDF/Research/Publications/Parenting%20Status%20of%20Community%20Correctional%20Clients.2014.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: http://www.vacro.org.au/Portals/0/PDF/Research/Publications/Parenting%20Status%20of%20Community%20Correctional%20Clients.2014.pdf Shelf Number: 132380 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (Australia)Community CorrectionsFamilies of InmatesParolees |
Author: Saunders, Vicky Title: Children of Prisoners: Exploring the needs of children and young people who have a parent incarcerated in the Australian Capital Territory Summary: Until recently, the parenting status of Australian prisoners has been poorly considered. However, Australian and international criminological policy and research is now focusing on the role that families play in the well-being, re-offending and rehabilitation of prisoners. This growing body of research has considered family connectedness from a variety of perspectives and there is emerging evidence of its impact on a range of social, health, mental wellbeing and criminological outcomes for prisoners (Travis, McBride, et al 2003; Stanley, & Byrne, 2000; Robertson, 2007). There is also a growing interest in the reciprocal impacts of imprisonment on families, and particularly on children. This has contributed to the recognition that prisoners need to be seen in the context of their family and parenting identities if a range of preventative, restorative and rehabilitative imperatives are to be fully achieved for them and for their children. This research study commissioned by SHINE for Kids and funded by the ACT Health Directorate aims to fill an important gap in knowledge about how prisoners are constructed as parents, and the impacts of incarceration upon prisoners' families in contemporary Australian society, by exploring and highlighting children's voices. The research centres on hearing and understanding the experiences of children who have or have had an incarcerated parent. The research study aimed to: - Deepen the understanding of the lives of children of prisoners by exploring their experiences of parental incarceration and the impact this has on them; - Identify appropriate individual, family and community supports and interventions informed by the children themselves in the context of multiple system involvement (e.g. child protection, criminal justice, health); and, - Inform the development of more integrated policy and practice responses to families who experience multiple and complex issues. Details: Canberra: SHINE for Kids, 2013. 65p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 5, 2015 at: https://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/593477/Final_Report_Children_of_Prisoners_Oct2013.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: https://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/593477/Final_Report_Children_of_Prisoners_Oct2013.pdf Shelf Number: 131746 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (Australia)Families of Inmates |