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Terms like “hidden” and “forgotten” victims, and “people in the shadow of the prison” have all been applied to the family members of incarcerated individuals (Codd in In the shadow of prison: Families, imprisonment and criminal justice, Willan, Cullompton, 2013; Hairston in Federal Probation 52:48–52, 1988).
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Christian, J. (2019). Who Are Prisoners’ Family Members? Towards an Holistic and Intersectional Framework. 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_5
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