The project explores parental incarceration from different perspectives focusing on children and parenthood, and on developing research-based social services for the families in the shadow of prison.
The project addresses the following main research question:
How are the children’s relations with their incarcerated parents, and the needs of the children seen from different perspectives as institutional views and as lived experiences?
Background
Despite a growing body of research pointing to the complex problems children of incarcerated parents may face, we still know too little about parental incarceration and how to best support these vulnerable children and families.
Work packages
- Institutional views
- Children
- Supportive parenting intervention
- Education
Impact
By researching the perspectives concerning children who experience parental incarceration, we are able to develop:
- Conceptual understandings of these relationships, and
- Research-based services for children and their parents according to their needs, and consequently make then institutionally visible in social services.
Funding
The project is funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland).
Partners
The project is conducted in Tampere University in collaboration with the Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa (PIRHA) and the NGO, Life without crime (RETS).