scholarly journals Maternal incarceration: Impact on parent–child relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 136749352110008
Author(s):  
Cathrine Fowler ◽  
Chris Rossiter ◽  
Tamara Power ◽  
Angela Dawson ◽  
Debra Jackson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Interpretive Description ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Adverse Experiences ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Parenting Role ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Female incarceration is rising steeply in Australia and other high-income countries. The majority of incarcerated women are mothers. Their children represent a particularly vulnerable group, often subject to adverse experiences due to their family’s disadvantaged circumstances involving inadequate housing, food insecurity, poverty, poor health, a lack of personal safety due to violence and resulting trauma. This qualitative study explores parenting experiences of incarcerated mothers separated from their children. Interviews involved 65 mothers in three Australian prisons and 19 stakeholders providing correctional services and support for incarcerated women. Data were analysed using interpretive description. Mothers’ accounts highlighted frustrations resulting from trying to maintain relationships with their children, often exacerbating their separation and compounding parenting difficulties. Two major themes emerged from the data: ‘protecting their children’ and ‘at the mercy of the system’. Mothers described how they tried to protect their children from the consequences of their incarceration, yet many of the correctional system processes and procedures made it even harder to maintain connection. Incarcerated mothers need support in their parenting role. Ideally, this support should commence during incarceration. Further, changes within prison routines could enhance mothers’ efforts to keep in contact with their children, through visits and phone calls.

Policy and Legal Protection for Breastfeeding and Incarcerated Women in Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Jane Paynter
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Conditional Release ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Criminalized Women

Most incarcerated women in Canada are mothers. Because women are the fastest growing population in carceral facilities, protecting the rights of incarcerated women to breastfeed their children is increasingly important. There is considerable evidence that incarcerated women in Canada experience poor physical and mental health, isolation, and barriers to care. Incarcerated women and their children could benefit significantly from breastfeeding. This Insight in Policy explores policy and legal protection for breastfeeding in Canada as it relates to carceral facilities, considers key cases regarding breastfeeding rights among incarcerated women, and presents recommendations for policy development and advocacy. The Canadian Constitution and human rights legislation across Canada prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender and includes pregnancy and the possibility of becoming pregnant as a characteristic of gender. Some provinces note that breastfeeding is a characteristic of gender. Women’s Wellness Within, a nonprofit organization providing volunteer perinatal support to criminalized women in Nova Scotia, conducted a scan of all provincial and territorial correctional services acts and the federal Corrections and Conditional Release Act: none mention breastfeeding. Protocols for breastfeeding during arrest and lockup by police were not available in any jurisdiction across Canada. International law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Nelson Mandela Rules, and the Bangkok Rules, have application to the rights of incarcerated breastfeeding women. The Inglis v. British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety) (2013) and Hidalgo v. New Mexico Department of Corrections (2017) decisions are pivotal examples of successful litigation brought forward by incarcerated mothers to advance breastfeeding rights. Improved application and understanding of existent law could advance breastfeeding rights.

Serious Fun at Sun City: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the “New” South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-36
Author(s):  
Lisa Biggs
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
New South ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
Narcotics Trafficking ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Democratic Elections

Women have been largely invisible in crime discourse in South Africa; they have never been conceived of as either the primary authors or objects of the law. Yet according to the Republic of South Africa Department of Correctional Services (DCS), they are one of the fastest-growing segments of the prison population today. In the eight years following democratic elections in 1994, DCS reports that the number of women behind bars grew by over 31 percent. From 2008 to 2012 alone, the women's prison population rose by 10 percent while the number of men behind bars declined. These increases are not fully attributable to an escalation in women's illicit behavior. Instead, shifts in policing and sentencing policies now mandate longer sentences for crimes for which women are most likely to be convicted—both aggressive and non-violent, often poverty-related, offenses such as theft (shoplifting, robbery, burglary, carjacking, fraud, embezzlement), narcotics (trafficking, sale, distribution), and sex work.

scholarly journals The Conditions and Procedure for the Admission of Children of Incarcerated Mothers to Mother-and-Baby Units at Prisons in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 301-310
Author(s):  
Magdalena Teleszewska
Keyword(s):  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Social Rehabilitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother And Baby Unit ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
The Right ◽  
Positive Effect

The admission of mother and child to the a mother-and-baby unit has a positive effect on both the development of the child as well as the social rehabilitation of the mother. Children in mother-and-baby units are provided the right conditions for development. The mother learns to fulfill her parental responsibilities. In addition, incarcerated women who are in prison with their children want to change for the better, in order to provide their children a better future.

When Dogs Make the Difference: Jail-Based Parenting With and Without Animal-Assisted Therapy

2021 ◽  
pp. 088740342110634
Author(s):  
Kimberly Collica-Cox ◽  
George J. Day
Keyword(s):  
Parental Stress ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Animal Assisted Therapy ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Healthy Relationships ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Difference

With 1.7 million children in the United States with an incarcerated parent, the need to provide evidence-based programming, which helps incarcerated mothers re-establish healthy relationships with their children, is essential. This study examines Parenting, Prison, and Pups, a jail-based parenting course for incarcerated women, integrated with the use of animal-assisted therapy (AAT). Utilizing a mixed-method quasi-experimental design, the authors examined differences between mothers who completed a parenting course with AAT, compared with those who completed the same course without AAT; statistically significant lower rates of parental stress and higher rates of self-esteem and parental knowledge among the AAT group were found. Based on qualitative data, the presence of therapy dogs appeared to encourage communication, trust, and connectedness between group members. These results indicate the importance of using innovative tools to help incarcerated women, who often have long histories of trauma and abuse, to develop healthy bonds with their children.

Baking Bittersweet: Mothers’ Dessert-Making Behind Bars

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Elizabeth Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Incarcerated Women ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Caregiving Roles ◽  
The Way

Food is a significant component of life; its preparation is gendered and associated with caregiving roles. For incarcerated women, food is especially salient. Inmate-created recipes can assist with asserting pro-social identities and responding to powerlessness. It is less certain if incarcerated mothers draw upon recipes to emphasize mothering identities. Therefore, this study uses focus groups at a jail and additionally analyzes contributed recipes to explore the way dessert-making behind bars affirms motherhood. Results suggest that dessert preparation aids in disrupting negative stereotypes, illuminates the fragility of incarcerated mothering, and highlights agentic practices. Implications for policy and research are included.

Policies for Incarcerated Mothers and their Families in Australian Corrections

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Farrell
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Incarcerated Mothers ◽  
Policy Study ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Need Support ◽  
Prison Environment ◽  
The Impact

The incarceration of a mother usually brings considerable dislocation to the offending woman's children and family. This paper examines current policies for the inmate mother, for her children and for the caregiver(s) of her children on the outside and argues for reform with respect to these policies. To this end, it reports on the Australian component of a comparative policy study, Incarcerated Mothers and Children: Impact of Prison Environments (IMCIPE), which investigated the impact of the prison environment on incarcerated mothers and their young children (including both mothers whose children live with them in custody and mothers who are separated from their children), in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and England. The paper draws on data from policy analyses; interviews with policy-makers, with inmate mothers, and with custodial and non-custodial staff; and observations within six women's prisons and their respective correctional authorities in the three Australian states. The study found that while inmate mothers need support from “significant others” within and outside the prison to cope with the dual roles of prisoner and mother, the custodial environment with its philosophy of incarceration, its mode of containment and the prison rules and regulations runs counter to such needs.

Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Infant Survival ◽  
Peer Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Early Parent ◽  
Collaborative Skills ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Abstract Tomasello's moral psychology of obligation would be developmentally deepened by greater attention to early experiences of cooperation and shared social agency between parents and infants, evolved to promote infant survival. They provide a foundation for developing understanding of the mutual obligations of close relationships that contribute (alongside peer experiences) to growing collaborative skills, fairness expectations, and fidelity to social norms.

Hybrid Telecoaching for Corporate Speech Training and Potential Applications to Clinical Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-324
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Corporate Speech ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Future Clinical Practice ◽  
Fortune 100 ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Development Engineering

Purpose The purpose of this article was to describe a model for “hybrid speech telecoaching” developed for a Fortune 100 organization and offer a “thought starter” on how clinicians might think of applying these corporate strategies within future clinical practice. Conclusion The author contends in this article that corporate telecommunications and best practices gleaned from software development engineering teams can lend credibility to e-mail, messaging apps, phone calls, or other emerging technology as viable means of hybrid telepractice delivery models and offer ideas about the future of more scalable speech-language pathology services.

Low-Cost System Handles Patient Phone Calls

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
BRUCE K. DIXON
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost System ◽  
Phone Calls
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