Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry (eBook)

Presencing as a Framework and Method

William Muth (Autor)

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2020
242 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4779-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book conceptualizes family reentry in terms of the untapped potential evident in the lived experiences of incarcerated fathers. It draws on postphenomenological concepts and real-life examples from Europe and the United States to frame a method for keeping fathers intimately engaged in the day-to-day lives of their children, even from afar.

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Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry: Presencing as a Framework and Method asks scholars, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners to rethink family reentry in a new light, to seek to understand both the urgent and intolerable loss as well as the real and present potential of families. There are almost one million parents of minor-aged children currently serving time in U.S. prisonsmost of them fathers. Based on post-phenomenological analyses, William Muth offers a new framework for conceptualizing family reentry as a present phenomenon. It seeks to reveal the intense ways incarcerated fathers and their families live their present-absence, and draws on these intensities to define a new role for researchers and practitioners: nurturing the potential of families in the here and now. The current situation is intolerable. A credible family reentry approach is urgently needed. This book is an attempt to address these families as they potentially are, and might become, if we would be willing to ';meet them half-way,' in the words of the poet Alice Fulton.

Autor

William Muth is professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Presencing of Families1. Sleepwalking or Wide Awake? 2. The Context of Family Absence and Presence 3. Presencing: Framework as Method 4. Being Father 5. Becoming Family 6. The Potentiality of Being and Becoming 7. Futurity as False Policy 8. Family Presence in European Prisons 9. Family Presence in American PrisonsConclusion: Ten Postulates for Family Presencing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 17 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 13 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables; - 1 Text Boxes.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: education in prison • Family • Family Presence in American Prisons • Family Presence in European Prisons • Father • fathers in prison • Hope House • incarcerated fathers • Incarceration • Penology • Presencing • reentry programs
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4779-6 / 1498547796
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4779-6 / 9781498547796