TY - JOUR
T1 - Incarcerated fatherhood
T2 - The entanglements of child support debt and mass imprisonment
AU - Haney, Lynne
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank the many colleagues and students who have contributed to the ideas in this article, including the AJS reviewers, John Halushka, Sabrina Dycus, Allison McKim, Chris Seeds, Mona Lynch, Kathryn Edin, Marie Gottschalk, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Nathan Link, Iddo Tavory, Jim Jacobs, David Garland, Ann Orloff, Maria Cancian, Ruth Horowitz, Kimberly Spencer-Suarez, Naomi Schneider, and Richard Wilson. The research in this article is part of a larger study “The Effects of Child Support Debt and Imprisonment on Men’s Community Reintegration,” cofunded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice (grant no. SES-1424309) and supportedby the Russell Sage Visiting Scholars Program.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - With evidence comprising three years of ethnographic research in child support courts and 125 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers, the author shows how criminal justice and child support provisions work in tandem to create complicated entanglements for fathers. She develops the concept of incarcerated fatherhood—a matrix of laws, policies, and institutional practices that shape formerly incarcerated men’s relationship to parenting. On the one hand, she analyzes the debt of imprisonment, or the material costs of paternal incarceration; on the other, she examines the imprisonment of debt, or the punitive costs of child support debt. She then brings these two entanglements together to analyze their effects on men’s lives as fathers. Instead of “piling up” in men’s lives, these entanglements work in circular ways to form feedback loops of disadvantage that create serious obstacles for men as parents and complicate precisely those relationships proven essential for reintegration after prison: familial relations of care, reciprocity, and interdependence.
AB - With evidence comprising three years of ethnographic research in child support courts and 125 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers, the author shows how criminal justice and child support provisions work in tandem to create complicated entanglements for fathers. She develops the concept of incarcerated fatherhood—a matrix of laws, policies, and institutional practices that shape formerly incarcerated men’s relationship to parenting. On the one hand, she analyzes the debt of imprisonment, or the material costs of paternal incarceration; on the other, she examines the imprisonment of debt, or the punitive costs of child support debt. She then brings these two entanglements together to analyze their effects on men’s lives as fathers. Instead of “piling up” in men’s lives, these entanglements work in circular ways to form feedback loops of disadvantage that create serious obstacles for men as parents and complicate precisely those relationships proven essential for reintegration after prison: familial relations of care, reciprocity, and interdependence.
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U2 - 10.1086/697580
DO - 10.1086/697580
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049221774
VL - 124
SP - 1
EP - 48
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
SN - 0002-9602
IS - 1
ER -