RT Article
T1 Race, Incarceration, and Motherhood: Spoiled Identity Among Rural White Mothers in Prison
JF The prison journal
VO 97
IS 2
SP 143
OP 165
A1 Easterling, Beth A.
A2 Feldmeyer, Ben
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741710618
AB Extant research on maternal incarceration has focused either on mothers as a whole (not disaggregated by race) or on the experiences of urban Black mothers, with relatively little focused attention on the experiences of their White counterparts. This study expands research on incarceration and its effects using qualitative interviews to explore how prison shapes identity construction among an understudied population—rural White mothers. Mothers in our sample expressed histories of family problems and drug use. Uniquely, we explore findings from a framework of “spoiled identity” for both the mothers themselves and their children as a result of their incarceration.
K1 Parental incarceration
K1 Mothers
K1 Race
K1 Spoiled identity
DO 10.1177/0032885517692791