RT Article
T1 Gender and (Fictive) Family in a Women’s Post-Incarceration Mentoring Program
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 6
SP 1485
OP 1501
A1 Garcia-Hallett, Janet
A2 Christian, Johnna
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838882693
AB Mentoring programs have become a popular tool of social support to facilitate post-incarceration re-entry. Still, we have a limited understanding of the fundamental aspects within mentor-mentee relationships that create a support network, particularly for women with troubled relationships with biological family. Through interviews with mentors and mentees, we examined key domains of women’s relationships with mentors to identify the potential and limitations of voluntary organizations in supporting the transition from prison to the community. We found that mentoring relationships, constructed as fictive kinships, helped formerly incarcerated women build a support network. Yet, navigating mentor-mentee relationships was complex given the dyadic familial-like nature and the hierarchical power dynamic.
K1 fictive kinship
K1 Gender
K1 mentoring programs
K1 Re-entry
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab120