RT Article
T1 Institutional Relational Maintenance Barriers and Perceptions of Relationship Quality Among Women With Incarcerated Partners
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 70
IS 3
SP 788
OP 811
A1 Durante, Katherine A.
A2 Phillips Meertins, Jasmine Rene
A2 Tadros, Eman
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882524586
AB High rates of incarceration in the United States has prompted researchers to study the impacts of imprisonment on romantic relationships and minor children. We examine the relationship between several prison facility barriers to relational maintenance and perceptions of relationship quality from the perspective of women whose male romantic, coparenting partners are incarcerated. Using data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering (MFS-IP) and binomial logistic regression, we find that the high costs of phone calls and difficulty of in-person visitation negatively impact how women perceive romantic relationship quality. These findings suggest that alleviating barriers to contact can help strengthen couples? relationships.
K1 communication barriers
K1 incarcerated couples
K1 Incarceration
K1 justice-involved families
K1 relational maintenance
DO 10.1177/00111287221113304