TY - BOOK
T1 - No Longer a Child, not yet An Adult
T2 - Young People's Experiences of a Family Member's Imprisonment
AU - Deacon, Kirsty
N1 - Published and issued as an 'In Brief' (Issue 15) by familiesoutside.org.uk.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - An estimated 20-27,000 children experience the imprisonment of a parent each year in Scotland (McGillivray 2016), although no official data is collected on this population. Estimates of the proportion of this figure who are teenagers comes from US research, which places it at 15-40% (Hairston 2007; Mumola 2000). No estimates exist for the numbers of children who experience a sibling’s imprisonment. This group also rarely features in familial imprisonment research, policy, or practice. Another forgotten group is young people who are serving a prison sentence at the same time as a family member, whether in the same prison or in different establishments. This briefing paper looks at all of these experiences.
AB - An estimated 20-27,000 children experience the imprisonment of a parent each year in Scotland (McGillivray 2016), although no official data is collected on this population. Estimates of the proportion of this figure who are teenagers comes from US research, which places it at 15-40% (Hairston 2007; Mumola 2000). No estimates exist for the numbers of children who experience a sibling’s imprisonment. This group also rarely features in familial imprisonment research, policy, or practice. Another forgotten group is young people who are serving a prison sentence at the same time as a family member, whether in the same prison or in different establishments. This briefing paper looks at all of these experiences.
KW - young people
KW - imprisonment
KW - forgotten groups
KW - family relationships
KW - prison
KW - sibling imprisonment
UR - https://www.familiesoutside.org.uk/
M3 - Other report
BT - No Longer a Child, not yet An Adult
CY - Edinburgh
ER -