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Prisoners and Their Families: The Effects of Imprisonment on the Family

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The public debate regarding criminals and crime usually deals primarily with the crime and the perpetrator at the time of the crime, but hardly with its development and, above all, little with his family and the impact of detention on them. Especially if the perpetrator still has young children, their development can be significantly negatively affected by the detention of a parent, usually the father. In the last few years, more and more institutions have been created in Germany to take care of the families of the detainees, but there is still a lot of work to be done. In many cases, NGOs are also active in this field. The chapter provides a brief overview of the national and international discussion of the topic. The empirical research clearly shows the negative effects of separating (small) children from their parents. In the case of the detention of a parent, the stigmatisation of the related, especially the children, still plays an essential role. The detention of the mother usually has even more serious negative effects on the children than when the father is in custody. According to German legal provisions on prison sentences, negative effects of a prison sentence should be avoided as far as possible. Much more should be done here, for example through large-scale regulations on the visits of prisoners by relatives.

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    See https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/suche/.

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    See also: https://cdn.penalreform.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PRI_Global-Prison-Trends-2018_EN_WEB.pdf.

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