“Yes, I can still parent. Until I die, he will always be my son: Parental\ud responsibility in the wake\ud of child incarceration'

摘要

This paper examines what parental responsibility means when an adolescent child is\udsent to prison, where the traditional parenting relationship seemingly ends and parens\udpatriae or penal control comes into full force. Paradoxically, we argue that even in\udthese restricted spaces of contact, parenting continues, albeit in a form which runs\udinto frequent tension with the care/control modalities of the prison itself. Our data\udfurther demonstrate the importance of addressing a constellation of social adversities\udexperienced by caregivers, in conjunction with the collateral consequences of offending\udand incarceration. Data are drawn from interviews with primary caregivers with young\udmen in prison (n=61).