{"title":"‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling","authors":"K. Deacon","doi":"10.1332/204674321x16472598316856","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"While there has been an increasing focus on familial imprisonment within academic literature, policy and practice, where this is in respect of children and young people this has tended to focus on their parents. This narrow view of family has seen the omission of sibling imprisonment experiences from these narratives. This article explores these experiences through in-depth interviews with seven young people, aged 17–22 at the time of their interviews, but also reflecting back on when they were children and younger teenagers. By exploring aspects of loss, the barriers to being able to maintain sibling relationships in a prison, and the potentially lasting impacts on these relationships, it argues the need to recognise family more widely than we currently do. This is both in terms of not focusing solely on parental imprisonment, but also the recognition of family through their ‘practices’ and ‘display’: what they do rather than what they are.","PeriodicalId":45141,"journal":{"name":"Families Relationships and Societies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Families Relationships and Societies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321x16472598316856","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"FAMILY STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
While there has been an increasing focus on familial imprisonment within academic literature, policy and practice, where this is in respect of children and young people this has tended to focus on their parents. This narrow view of family has seen the omission of sibling imprisonment experiences from these narratives. This article explores these experiences through in-depth interviews with seven young people, aged 17–22 at the time of their interviews, but also reflecting back on when they were children and younger teenagers. By exploring aspects of loss, the barriers to being able to maintain sibling relationships in a prison, and the potentially lasting impacts on these relationships, it argues the need to recognise family more widely than we currently do. This is both in terms of not focusing solely on parental imprisonment, but also the recognition of family through their ‘practices’ and ‘display’: what they do rather than what they are.
期刊介绍：
Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.
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