Acknowledgments; Introduction:Journeying into the Worlds of Prisoners' Children; Part One; 1. Living with Mom-Most of the Time; 2. Outside the Curtained Windows; 3. The Ubiquity of Violence; Part Two; 4. When the Criminal Justice System Comes Calling; 5. They All Do the Time; 6. What Lies Ahead; Appendix A: Doing Research with Children of Incarcerated Parents; Appendix B: A Portrait of the Children and Their Mothers; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
Disrupted Childhoods explores the issues that arise from a mother's confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. Jane A. Siegel offers a perspective that recognizes differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system. Presenting an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned, this book reveals the many challenges they face from the moment such a critical caregiver is arrested to the time she returns home from prison
