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‘Prison’ and ‘the family’ are apparently incongruous concepts. ‘Prison’ is the outcome of a sentencing decision taken about an individual who is punished through separation from mainstream society, and by extension through disconnection from prior living arrangements and companions.

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  1. School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK

    Marie Hutton

  2. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Dominique Moran

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Hutton, M., Moran, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Hutton, M., Moran, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family . Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12744-2_1

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