Author : William Muth
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498547796
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Book Synopsis Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry by : William Muth
Download or read book Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry written by William Muth and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry: Presencing as a Framework and Method asks scholars, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners to rethink family reentry in a new light, to seek to understand both the urgent and intolerable loss as well as the real and present potential of families. There are almost one million parents of minor-aged children currently serving time in U.S. prisons—most of them fathers. Based on post-phenomenological analyses, William Muth offers a new framework for conceptualizing family reentry as a present phenomenon. It seeks to reveal the intense ways incarcerated fathers and their families live their present-absence, and draws on these intensities to define a new role for researchers and practitioners: nurturing the potential of families in the here and now. The current situation is intolerable. A credible family reentry approach is urgently needed. This book is an attempt to address these families as they potentially are, and might become, if we would be willing to “meet them half-way,” in the words of the poet Alice Fulton.