Prisoners’ families
Civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12937324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rose C Smith (Transnational Press London, corresponding author), Roger Grimshaw (0000-0003-0917-3218, King's College London), Renée Romeo (King's College London), Mel Knapp (0000-0003-1427-0215, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-17 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-8273 • E-ISSN: 1759-8281 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.51952/hpfa9902 |
| OpenAlex | W69927242 |
| Language | EN |
This article explores the poverty and disadvantage experienced by prisoners’ families living at or below the level officially recognised as ‘poor’. Current social policy ignores the priority given to the care needs of children by predominantly female relatives and partners of prisoners. In conjunction with criminal justice and immigration legislation, social policies have combined to impoverish, disadvantage and exclude prisoners’ families. Reforms of the welfare system may improve the adequacy of state welfare benefits, but unless fundamentally reshaped, social policy could continue to penalise the ‘care’ offered by prisoners’ families and so further entrench inequalities
Criminal justice · Criminology · Development economics · Disadvantage · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Immigration · Inequality · Legislation · Political science · Poverty · Social exclusion · Social policy · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |