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Results for children of prisoners (europe)
1 results foundAuthor: Scharff-Smith, Peter Title: Children of Imprisoned Parents Summary: According to historians, prisons have existed as separate institutions in Europe for more than 400 years, and imprisonment has been a key sanction in the range of punishments of modern European states since the 19th century. Experts, policy makers and many others have discussed the effects of imprisonment for decades and even centuries, addressing issues such as the purpose of imprisonment as a punishment and its effects on recidivism, rehabilitation and prevention. These discussions have typically focused on the impact of imprisonment upon the individual prisoner and to a certain degree on the possible deterrent effect that incarcerating criminals can have upon the rest of society. However, it is of course inevitable that the use of imprisonment will also affect prisoners’ families and perhaps, most especially, their children. Yet, children of imprisoned parents have, up until the later decades of the 20th century, attracted scarce attention, either politically or as a topic for research. As recently as 2005, two prominent criminology editors of a volume on “The effects of imprisonment” concluded that the impact of imprisonment on the prisoner’s family was still one of the less studied fields within criminology, despite the obvious importance of this area. As a consequence, children of imprisoned parents as a specific group have been labelled the ‘forgotten victims’ of our system of punishment. This seems hard to understand given the extent of the problems many of these children face, the potentially long-term damage to their emotional and psychological development and the sheer scale of the problem: on any given day there are millions of children who experience parental imprisonment all over the world and an estimated 800,000 in the European Union alone. This figure is not only likely to be a conservative estimate but also only relates to children with a parent in prison. There are of course many, many more children who are affected by imprisonment of their siblings, grandparents, uncles and aunts and other family members with whom they have a close relationship. The effects of such imprisonment on those children will often be similar to those experienced by children whose parent goes to prison, and many of the rights and issues identified within this report still apply. Details: Copenhagen: Danish Institute for Human Rights; European Network for Chidlren of Imprisoned Parents, University of Ulster and Bambginisenzasbarre, 2011. 284p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 30, 2013 at: http://menneskeret.dk/files/pdf/Full%20report%20Children%20of%20Imprisoned%20parents.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Europe URL: http://menneskeret.dk/files/pdf/Full%20report%20Children%20of%20Imprisoned%20parents.pdf Shelf Number: 128171 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (Europe)Families of Inmates |