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.
By:
Tasseli McKay,
Megan Comfort,
Christine Lindquist,
Anupa Bir
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520305243
ISBN 10: 0520305248
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 July 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Returning Incarcerated Fathers to the Family 2. “Always Having Hope”: What We (Didn’t) Know about Fatherhood and Incarceration 3. “I Do, but I Don’t, Know Where We Are”: Couple Relationships during Incarceration and Reentry 4. “None of the Above”: Partner Violence and the Limitations of Research 5. “Change Ain’t Going to Happen Overnight”: Operationalizing Reentry Success 6. “A Breakthrough Type of Thing”: Measuring the Impact of Family-Strengthening Programs during Incarceration and Reentry 7. On the Horizon: The Social Science of Incarceration and Family Life Appendix References Index
Tasseli McKay is Social Science Researcher with the Victimization and Resilience program at RTI International. Megan Comfort is Senior Research Sociologist with the Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice program at RTI International. She is the author of Doing Time Together. Christine Lindquist is Director of the Corrections and Reentry Research program at RTI International. Anupa Bir is Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International.
Reviews for Holding On: Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and Reentry
Holding On is a compelling read that will be useful particularly to policymakers and activists who need evidence toward prison reform and program funding allocations. * Gender & Society * Holding On is a hopeful and empathic book that packs significant policy-relevant analysis into a slim volume. * Men and Masculinities * Holding On is a must-read for policymakers and prison administrators. It is accessible enough for use in undergraduate and graduate sociology, policy, and psychology courses. It is also an invaluable resource for academics interested in the complex ways that incarceration and reentry impact our nation's families. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
