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A number of special challenges are associated with release from prison and a parent’s return to — or renewed contact with — his or her family and children under more normal terms. The released parent must once again adjust to the parental role outside of the prison, and many children have to get used to having their mother or father home again.
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See Andrew Coyle, Understanding Prisons: Key Issues in Policy and Practice (Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2005), 16.
Shadd Maruna, “After Prison, What? The Ex-prisoner’s Struggle to Desist from Crime”, in Handbook on Prisons, ed. Y. Jewkes (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2009), 651.
T. Tranæs, “Den uformelle straf og velfærdsstaten”, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab 95, no. 3 (2008), 29.
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Smith, P.S. (2014). When Dad or Mum Returns: Re-entry and Release. In: When the Innocent are Punished. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137414298_14
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