Open AccessHomecomer: Reconstruction of relations in families of former prisoners
Author(s) -
Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta universitatis lodziensis. folia sociologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-4850
pISSN - 0208-600X
DOI - 10.18778/0208-600x.78.04
Subject(s) - imprisonment , narrative , isolation (microbiology) , qualitative research , sociology , psychology , criminology , social relation , developmental psychology , gender studies , social psychology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The article focuses on the family relations of people sentenced to imprisonment. The aim of the project is to study the relations between former prisoners and their family members, particularly to define various strategies of rebuilding family relations, applied by former prisoners in the process of social adaptation. Based on the reconstruction of biographies of adult people who experienced the imprisonment of a parent during their childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, the author characterised various strategies of rebuilding relations, as well as difficulties and setbacks connected with breaking and losing the bond. The study made use of qualitative strategies of sociological analyses (biographical method). 31 narrative interviews with people who experienced penitentiary isolation of their parent (adult children of prisoners, aged between 18 and 70) were conducted as part of the study.