TY - JOUR

T1 - Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement

AU - Fitzpatrick, Claire

AU - Hunter, Katie

AU - Shaw, Julie

AU - Staines, Jo

PY - 2024/3/1

Y1 - 2024/3/1

N2 - Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care (e.g. foster care or children’s homes), care-experienced girls and young women in the community, and professionals who work with them. Key findings include: a desire to break cycles of intergenerational stigma and social care involvement; lack of support and a fear of asking for help, and the care-less approach to pregnancy and motherhood that may be faced in prison and beyond.

AB - Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care (e.g. foster care or children’s homes), care-experienced girls and young women in the community, and professionals who work with them. Key findings include: a desire to break cycles of intergenerational stigma and social care involvement; lack of support and a fear of asking for help, and the care-less approach to pregnancy and motherhood that may be faced in prison and beyond.

U2 - 10.1093/bjc/azad028

DO - 10.1093/bjc/azad028

M3 - Journal article

VL - 64

SP - 257

EP - 274

JO - British Journal of Criminology

JF - British Journal of Criminology

SN - 0007-0955

IS - 2

ER -