While you were locked up: an empirical study on the characteristics, social surroundings and wellbeing of partners of prisoners in The Netherlands

While it has been established that imprisonment can have unintended consequences for prisoners, the unintended consequences of imprisonment for others, e.g. their romantic partners, have been severely neglected in the academic discourse. Consequently, there is a lack of knowledge on prisoners’ partners and the ways that imprisonment may affect their lives. Using data from the Prison Project, this dissertation outlined a detailed profile of a population of female partners of male Dutch prisoners by studying their demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural and criminal characteristics. When we comp... Mehr ...