RT Book
T1 Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers
A1 Haney, Lynne A. 1967-
LA English
PP Berkeley, CA
PB University of California Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1810171539
AB A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt. In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglements—rather than ";piling up"; in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prison–child support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement. Through moving accounts of men struggling to be fathers from behind prison walls and under the weight of support debt, Prisons of Debt exposes how the criminalization of child support undermines the most essential of familial relationships. Haney argues that these state systems can end up producing exactly the kind of parent they fear and loathe: bitter, unreliable, and cyclical fathers. Based on observations of 1,200 child support cases and interviews with 145 indebted fathers in New York, California, and Florida, Prisons of Debt reveals the actual practices of child support adjudication and enforcement alongside the lived realities of fathers trapped in those systems. The result is a rigorously documented analysis of how poor men are too often denied their rights of citizenship and of fatherhood
OP 376
CN HV8886.U5
SN 9780520969681
K1 Child support : United States
K1 Child Welfare : United States
K1 Prisoners : Family relationships : United States
K1 Prisoners' families : United States
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
K1 Bradley Amendment
K1 absentee fathers
K1 child support debt
K1 children
K1 criminalization of poverty
K1 economic precarity
K1 family court system
K1 fatherhood
K1 imprisonment
K1 incarceration
K1 inequality
K1 mothers
K1 public assistance
K1 reform
K1 system
K1 Strafvollzug : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Vater : Jugendhilfe : Schulden
DO 10.1525/9780520969681