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Explanation 1: Children Are Not Adversely Impacted When Their Mother Is Imprisoned

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In this chapter, I explore the hypothesis that children separated from their mother by imprisonment do not suffer any negative consequences and therefore require no particular consideration by the sentencing courts or other authorities. In order to test the explanation, I begin with a summary of what is known from research literature about the impact on children of maternal imprisonment. This provides a context for the remainder of the chapter in which the voices of children and caregivers in England and Wales who participated in research interviews provide details of their lived experiences of maternal imprisonment. These accounts are explored within the conceptual framework of secondary prisonisation and secondary stigmatisation.

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Minson, S. (2020). Explanation 1: Children Are Not Adversely Impacted When Their Mother Is Imprisoned. In: Maternal Sentencing and the Rights of the Child. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32738-5_4

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