Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood: Maternal Identity and Success on Parole

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Marilyn; Bloom, Barbara
Titel	Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood: Maternal Identity and Success on Parole
Quelle	In: Crime & Delinquency, 55 (2009) 2, S.313-336 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0011-1287
DOI	10.1177/0011128708330627
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Correctional Institutions; Child Rearing; Housing Needs; Social Services; Parent Child Relationship; Institutionalized Persons; Employed Parents; Parent Role; Interviews; Barriers; Poverty; Educational Attainment; Drug Addiction; At Risk Persons + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Jugendstrafvollzug; Kindererziehung; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Armut; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Drug dependence; Drug consomption; Drogenabhängigkeit; Risikogruppe
Abstract	Parenting women emerging from prison on parole face numerous challenges to their successful reentry into the community. Along with finding housing, employment, and satisfying the conditions of their supervision, parenting women must also reassume their roles as mothers. This article adds to the literature on reentry by placing women's maternal concerns at the forefront of this process. Combining quantitative explorations of women's parole case files (203) with in-depth interviews (25), this research demonstrates that reentering mothers confront many of the same problems that mediated their incarceration: poverty, lack of education, unstable housing, lack of access to social services, underemployment, and addiction. While the maternal role may constitute a conventional identity "script" for these ex-inmates and motivate their success on parole, the challenges they face that impact their childrearing before prison make reassuming their maternal roles a precarious enterprise. Recommendations for gender-responsive policies and programs are provided. (Contains 2 tables and 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10