Coping With Incarceration: How Women Adjust to Being Separated From Their Children
Barbara Koons-Witt,
Courtney Crittenden,
Skylar Crick
Abstract:The current study considers how women experience the pain of loss of liberty and separation from their children and families during the initial phases of incarceration and identifies factors that help them adapt and move beyond any early difficulties. It uses data from semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of incarcerated mothers to qualitatively explore their experiences, including any misconduct or troubles, and their views on what helped them during this first phase of their imprisonment. Most … Show more
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