‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16472598316856

K. Deacon

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Abstract

While there has been an increasing focus on familial imprisonment within academic literature, policy and practice, where this is in respect of children and young people this has tended to focus on their parents. This narrow view of family has seen the omission of sibling imprisonment experiences from these narratives. This article explores these experiences through in-depth interviews with seven young people, aged 17–22 at the time of their interviews, but also reflecting back on when they were children and younger teenagers. By exploring aspects of loss, the barriers to being able to maintain sibling relationships in a prison, and the potentially lasting impacts on these relationships, it argues the need to recognise family more widely than we currently do. This is both in terms of not focusing solely on parental imprisonment, but also the recognition of family through their ‘practices’ and ‘display’: what they do rather than what they are.

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“没关系，我们帮不了你”:被兄弟姐妹囚禁的年轻人的经历

虽然在学术文献、政策和实践中越来越多地关注家庭监禁，但在儿童和年轻人方面，这往往集中在他们的父母身上。这种对家庭的狭隘看法使得这些叙述忽略了兄弟姐妹被监禁的经历。本文通过对7位17-22岁的年轻人的深度访谈，探讨了这些经历，同时也反思了他们小时候和青少年时期的经历。通过探索失去亲人的各个方面，在监狱中维持兄弟姐妹关系的障碍，以及对这些关系的潜在持久影响，它认为有必要比我们现在更广泛地认识家庭。这不仅体现在对父母禁锢的关注上，也体现在通过他们的“实践”和“展示”来认识家庭:他们做了什么，而不是他们是什么。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.