Rodzice więźniów. Studium doświadczeń
Prisoners' Parents. A study of experiences

Author(s): Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Criminology, Family and social welfare, Penology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: biographical research; prisoner families; parenting crisis; rehabilitation and social readaptation
Summary/Abstract: This monograph is a sociopedagogical study of the experience of parents of prisoners. In analyzing the issue of family crisis in prison, I looked at the perspective of fathers and mothers of incarcerated sons. In my analysis I used the biographical method, as proposed by such researchers as Fritz Schütze or Tom Wengraf. The main aim of this study was to identify the ways in which the subjects define their own life experiences. I was interested in the process of assigning meanings to various life events. Within the obtained narrations I recognized remedial and adaptation strategies undertaken by parents of prisoners. The results of the analysis allow me to answer the question: how do family members cope with the experience of imprisonment and how do they construct their own identity in the face of this event? The study consists of three main parts. Part I is a theoretical and methodological introduction to the research context. Part II is the author's study of the problem (description of the results of the analyses devoted directly to the experiences of the parents of prisoners). Part III is a kind of summary of methodological dilemmas and the process of conducting interviews.

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