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Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry

Presencing as a Framework and Method

William Muth

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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 242 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-4778-9 • Hardback • October 2018 • $123.00 • (£95.00)

978-1-4985-4780-2 • Paperback • July 2020 • $47.99 • (£37.00)

978-1-4985-4779-6 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Men's Studies, Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Social Science / Children's Studies

Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry

Presencing as a Framework and Method

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Paperback

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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.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 242 • Trim: 6¼ x 9

978-1-4985-4778-9 • Hardback • October 2018 • $123.00 • (£95.00)

978-1-4985-4780-2 • Paperback • July 2020 • $47.99 • (£37.00)

978-1-4985-4779-6 • eBook • July 2020 • $45.50 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Men's Studies, Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Social Science / Children's Studies

Author

William Muth is professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Presencing of Families
1. Sleepwalking or Wide Awake?
2. The Context of Family Absence and Presence
3. Presencing: Framework as Method
4. Being Father
5. Becoming Family
6. The Potentiality of Being and Becoming
7. Futurity as False Policy
8. Family Presence in European Prisons
9. Family Presence in American Prisons
Conclusion: Ten Postulates for Family Presencing

Reviews

For frontline practitioners as well as policy makers, this book will be a helpful addition to those struggling to understand the impact that incarceration has on father-child relationships.

— Geoffrey Greif, University of Maryland

Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry

Presencing as a Framework and Method

William Muth

Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry

Presencing as a Framework and Method

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