Resource Summary
This report focuses on the cost of female imprisonment for two particularly vulnerable groups; mothers who are imprisoned and their children. Maternal imprisonment also has a high cost for the taxpayers who fund the agencies charged with picking up the pieces in the longer term. To explain the wider impact of maternal imprisonment, it is necessary to take a ‘whole systems approach’, analysing how the criminal justice system responds to maternal imprisonment, identifying the impacts of existing responses not only on the life chances of imprisoned mothers and their children, but also the economic impact through potentially avoidable costs which accrue.
Resource Information
| Format: | report or research |
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| Author: | Julia Pitman and Jessica Hull |
| Organisation: | Crest Advisory |
| Themes: | criminal justice, family, parenting and relationships, pregnancy, birth and motherhood |
| Published: | October 2021 |
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