SOC 3740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Child Advocacy, Substance Abuse
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Why is it important: main goal is to not reoffend, more people leaving prison. Significant challenges facing returning prisoners: consequences for communities and families, they are spending more time in prison, the longer you spend in custody the more difficult the transition. Ex-prisoners may face social economic and personal challenges that may make it difficult to avoid retuning to criminal activity. Learn to exercise discipline in a busy crazy life. Barriers prisoners face upon release from prison include: housing, employment, health, meeting other basic needs. Substance use: establishing new networks, managing stigma or ex prisoner, communities. The concentration of incarceration in families (wildeman and wakefield 2014) Paternal incarceration and child well being (quantitative findings: economic resources, loss of breadwinner source of money, well being of mother. Women who have children tend to withdraw from social networks to hide stigma of incarceration.
