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Le guide du prisonnier [Belgique]
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ISBN: 2804016447 9782804016449 Year: 2000 Publisher: Bruxelles: Labor,


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Nos têtes sont plus dures que les murs des prisons.
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ISBN: 2246696712 9782246696711 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Grasset


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Children of imprisoned parents : European perspectives on good practice.
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ISBN: 2952672504 9782952672504 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Bernard van Leer Foundation

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This handbook of practice and experience is designed for specialists and volunteers working with or for children of imprisoned parents. It seeks to promote, expand and inspire good practice relating to this vulnerable group of children and revolves around six themes: * Parenting in prison: supporting the imprisoned parent; * The legal framework: international and European conventions, national law and maintaining family ties; * Influencing public policy; * Mothers and babies in prison; * Children visiting prison; * Maintaining family ties: identifying training needs and methods.Each chapter offers a European approach and perspective on some of the work currently being carried out across Europe, presenting a commonality that transcends borders and national judicial and penal policies, rather than an exhaustive, nation-by-nation approach. As a whole, the handbook provides a child-centred guide for ideas and initiatives that foster and reinforce family ties for children with imprisoned parents and protect their emotional, psychological and social development.


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Doing time together : love and family in the shadow of the prison.
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ISBN: 1282069721 9786612069727 0226114686 9780226114682 9780226114620 0226114627 9780226114637 0226114635 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

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By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation's two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside. Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into "quasi-inmates," eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America's massive prison system, Comfort's book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.

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