Prisoners’ families and offender management: mobilizing social capital
Mills, Alice and Codd, Helen (2008) Prisoners’ families and offender management: mobilizing social capital. Probation Journal, 55, (1), 9-24. (doi:10.1177/0264550507085675).
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Interest in prisoners' families has grown considerably in recent years as the link between family support and reduced recidivism is increasingly recognized. This article explores the potential role of prisoners' families in reducing re-offending by reviewing the research literature to assess the contribution that family ties can make to effective resettlement and desistance from crime. Like other commentators, such as Farrall (2004) and Wolff and Draine (2004), the authors draw on the concept of `social capital' to provide key insights into the importance of family relationships for encouraging desistance. Potential ways to mobilize this social capital are considered and the article concludes with reflections on the likelihood of such measures being deployed by offender managers in the current penal context, and assesses whether the shift to offender management is likely to boost recognition of prisoners' family relationship
|Keywords:||desistance, offender management, prisoners' families, resettlement, social capital|
|Subjects:||H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
|Divisions:||University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Sociology and Social Policy
|Date Deposited:||21 Jan 2010|
|Last Modified:||27 Mar 2014 18:50|
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