RT Article
T1 Far From Home: An Examination of the Juvenile Visitation Experience and the Barriers to Getting There
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 8
SP 1409
OP 1423
A1 Young, Brae Campion
A1 Nadel, Melissa R.
A1 Bales, William D.
A2 Nadel, Melissa R.
A2 Bales, William D.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1670759466
AB Despite a growing body of research on prison visitation, very few studies have examined visitation among committed juvenile offenders. As a result, we have little understanding of how youth experience visits and why some never receive them. This article fills these gaps. Using surveys collected from 1,202 youth released from residential facilities in Florida, we found that among youth who were visited, they had positive experiences with visits and that families went to great lengths to visit. For those youth who were not visited, the most common barrier was distance from home. However, some youth were not visited because they refused visits or because families withheld visits as punishment. Moreover, despite the possibility that lack of visitation is harmful, we found that most not-visited youth had positive perceptions of their future success. Policy implications and directions for research are discussed.
K1 Prison visitation
K1 Juvenile visitation
K1 Juvenile justice
K1 Family support
K1 Family visitation
K1 Jugendvollzug
K1 Besuchsregelung
K1 Gefängnisbesuch
K1 Familienbesuche
DO 10.1177/0306624X18823444