RT Article
T1 Social exclusion in families affected by paternal imprisonment
JF The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
VO 51
IS 2
SP 221
OP 238
A1 Besemer, Kirsten L
A2 Dennison, Susan M
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1737530503
AB Although social exclusion is often described as an outcome of paternal imprisonment, few studies have directly measured the extent of social exclusion in prisoners’ families or benchmarked it against the general population. This paper compares social exclusion among caregivers of children affected by paternal incarceration with overall estimates of social exclusion across the Australian population and with estimates of social exclusion among a matched subset. Caregivers of children with imprisoned fathers were much more heavily excluded than adults in the general population. Compared to a matched sample, differences were smaller and mostly related to inadequate financial resources. We propose that single parent status and financial hardship are key mediators of the relationship between paternal incarceration and social exclusion.
K1 Financial hardship
K1 Intergenerational effects of paternal imprisonment
K1 Paternal incarceration
K1 Poverty
K1 Social exclusion
DO 10.1177/0004865817701530