{"title":"Visitation and policy: implications for incarcerated individuals and their families","authors":"Eman Tadros","doi":"10.1080/10522158.2023.2268164","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe United States has the highest-incarcerated population in the world. The U.S. houses 25% of the world’s incarcerated individuals. Interpretations of incarcerated visitation differ and focus on theoretical and empirical importance with social connections and their initiation via visitation shields damaging outcomes of disapproval and stereotype. An absent father due to incarceration can cause a burden on one’s family structure due to expenses related to legal costs, communication through telephone calls, transportation to visitation, and putting funds on the incarcerated individual’s account. Well-known strict correctional facility visiting atmospheres hold barriers such as limited visiting schedules, visitation processes, and offensive visiting searches which are all difficult and essentially impact the consistency and or experience of the visits. Reducing difficulties within a correctional facility by organizing visitations that can be child friendly for incarcerated fathers can help support positive relationship involvement with families.KEYWORDS: Familyincarcerationpolicyvisitation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Social Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Family Social Work","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2023.2268164","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL WORK","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACTThe United States has the highest-incarcerated population in the world. The U.S. houses 25% of the world’s incarcerated individuals. Interpretations of incarcerated visitation differ and focus on theoretical and empirical importance with social connections and their initiation via visitation shields damaging outcomes of disapproval and stereotype. An absent father due to incarceration can cause a burden on one’s family structure due to expenses related to legal costs, communication through telephone calls, transportation to visitation, and putting funds on the incarcerated individual’s account. Well-known strict correctional facility visiting atmospheres hold barriers such as limited visiting schedules, visitation processes, and offensive visiting searches which are all difficult and essentially impact the consistency and or experience of the visits. Reducing difficulties within a correctional facility by organizing visitations that can be child friendly for incarcerated fathers can help support positive relationship involvement with families.KEYWORDS: Familyincarcerationpolicyvisitation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Each issue of the Journal of Family Social Work contains peer reviewed research articles, conceptual and practice articles, creative works, letters to the editor, and book reviews devoted to innovative family theory and practice subjects. In celebrating social workers" tradition of working with couples and families in their life context, the Journal of Family Social Work features articles which advance the capacity of practitioners to integrate research, theory building, and practice wisdom into their services to families. It is a journal of policy, clinical practice, and research directed to the needs of social workers working with couples and families.