This book focuses on the parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face – from violence, severe psychological stress, to stigma and shame – the book provides one of the first empirical assessments of the ways parents manage the conseque...

This book focuses on the parents whose adolescent male children are sent to prison. Charting many of the adversities which parents face – from violence, severe psychological stress, to stigma and shame – the book provides one of the first empirical assessments of the ways parents manage the consequences of serious crime.