Title Page
Contents, Acknowledgements, Preface
Main Research Document
Bedford Row - A Poem by John Carmody
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Imprisonment of a family member has a significant impact on those left outside. Even though they have not committed a crime, family members can feel stigmatised and shamed and carry huge emotional and health costs. Families deserve support in their own right, a support which is tailored to their own needs.
Supporting families is also crime prevention. Having a parent involved in crime is a strong risk factor for the child becoming involved in crime (Withers 2003). Supporting children and teenagers when a parent goes into prison can help to interrupt the cycle of inter-generational criminal activity. It has also been found that people in prison who maintain good family contact are twice as likely to have employment and housing on leaving prison and are six times less likely to re-offend (Loucks 2004).
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Counselling and Prison Based Addiction Treatment
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Drug use, abuse and dependence within prison are all intimately bound up with the multifaceted character of the hardship, suffering and tragedy that befall many of the families participating in our Project. Hence, what happens or doesn’t happen within this context of prison-based addiction treatment is of great concern to us. Following the putting of the research out to tender in late 2005, Bedford Row were fortunate to engage a very experienced research team from Dublin City University (DCU) to carry out the proposed research.
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