Global Prisoners' Families

Addressing the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment: Developing Collaborative Training: 'Safeguarding Children when Sentencing Mothers'

The project was run in 2017/2018 by Dr Shona Minson with Dr Rachel Condry as the named faculty...

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Mitigating Motherhood: A Study on the Impact of Motherhood on Sentencing Decisions in England and Wales

Centre for Criminology

A study of the effects of prisoner re-entry on children and their caregivers in England and Wales

This British Academy funded postdoctoral research undertaken by Dr Shona Minson focuses on the...

The impact of COVID-19 prison lockdowns on children with a parent in prison

In March 2020 prisons in the UK became subject to a restricted regime with no social visits allowed...

Prisons, Punishment and the Family: Towards a new sociology of punishment

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of...

The first Global Prisoners' Families Symposium in Oxford

Global Prisoners' Families is directed in Oxford by Rachel Condry and Shona Minson. It originated when a small group of scholars whose work centred on the families of prisoners, were brought together for a two day symposium in Oxford in 2016. From that symposium the book 'Prisons, Punishment and the Family: Towards a new sociology of punishment' (OUP) was produced in 2018. Since then the group has developed a network which includes more than 40 scholars worldwide active in prisoners' families research, it and seeks to work towards the production, exchange and dissemination of research.

In this burgeoning field much work has focused on the UK, United States, Australia and Europe and the network intentionally seeks to raise the profile of research taking place in the Global South.