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Title Contemporary research and analysis on the children of prisoners : invisible children / edited by Liz Gordon
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro; Contents; Author Biographies; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Slipping Through the Cracks; Advocacy for Children's Rights; Punishing the Innocent; Crime and Punishment in the Land of Aloha; Kick in the Door, Wavin' the Four-Four; Responding to the Need of Children and Families of the Incarcerated; They Took My Parent Away; Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Against All Odds; Maintaining Family Ties; Connecticut's Children with Incarcerated Parents (CIP) Initiative at Central Connecticut State University; Support for Families of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence
What Little we KnowTYRO® Dads; Prison Staff who Shape Child and Family Visits; List of Speakers at INCCIP Conference, March 2017
Summary From back of book :" The papers in this collection cover many of the themes in the wider literature on the children of prisoners. Advocacy themes include moving towards child-friendly prison systems, using mass incarceration to influence wider social change, the effects of pre-trial detention on families, the particular issues in Hawaii and how detention procedures harm children
Notes Based on papers from the 2017 International Coalition for Children with Incarcerated Parents (INCCIP) conference in New Zealand
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Children of prisoners -- Research -- Congresses
Children of prisoners -- Effect of imprisonment on -- Congresses
Psychology.
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Sociology & anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Children of prisoners -- Effect of imprisonment on
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Gordon, Liz, 1955- editor.
ISBN 9781527511941
1527511944
Other Titles Invisible children