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Margaret Smith – CJG – 05/10/2021
Families of individuals involved in the justice system can experience a variety of impacts upon their lives and family functioning. Changes to financial support and income may result in families being at risk of losing housing. Children and young people may be impacted by necessary alterations to their care-giving arrangements, passing from one family member to another or to state supported provision. Families also experience isolation, exclusion, and stigma through association with an individual involved in the justice system, all of which present challenges to engaging with services and maintaining normative family functioning.
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Julie-Anne Simm – The Croft – 05/10/2021
Article giving a background on the services The Croft provide and the importance of this service, as well as expressing the importance of collaborative working.
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Julie-Anne Simm – The Croft – 05/10/2021
Information on the service and support The Croft provide to families and how this support benefits them.
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Louise Gallagher – GCHSCP – 21/09/2021
This article reports on training that families outside where commissioned to develop and deliver on raising awareness sessions on the research findings and the impacts on families, children and young people.
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CJG – 2018
The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act in 2015 requires the Partnership to publish a plan that sets out our shared priorities for the city, where we plan to make improvements and over time show that we have made these improvements. This document sets out the priority and focus areas from October 2017 onwards.
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Scottish Government – 2012
Final report of the Commission on Women Offenders, which was established to examine how female offenders are dealt with in the criminal justice system.
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Dr. Maria Sapouna, Catherine Bisset, Anne-Marie Conlong & Ben Matthews – Scottish Government – 2015
This evidence review was undertaken to support strategic thinking regarding what works to reduce reoffending. The aim of the review was to examine the research into reducing reoffending, the process(es) by which individuals stop offending, and the impact of the criminal justice system in these processes. It does not consider strategies to reduce the risk of crime more generally, such as through early interventions, increasing the costs of offending or reducing opportunities to offend, as these areas are the focus of a separate Scottish Government published review of the literature on what works to reduce crime.
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Families Outside – March 2019
A consortium of two universities supporting a Scottish voluntary organisation that works solely on behalf of families affected by imprisonment was commissioned to undertake a participative research project over 18 months to elicit from children, young people, their families and involved professionals what the problems were and to co-produce proposed solutions.
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Maya Cohen – Families Outside – July 2019
This report focuses on the significant challenges facing family members of people in prison surrounding travel, transport, and the experience of visiting.
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Rachel Brett – Families Outside – May 2018
One of the areas in which the development of the concept and understanding of the rights of the child is beginning to have a significant effect is in relation to the impact of the child’s parent or caregiver coming into conflict with the criminal law. This raises perceptions of a clash between the rights of the child (why should a child suffer because of the actions of their parent?), the impartiality of the judicial system (to what extent should caring/parental responsibilities be taken into account when deciding on pre-trial measures or in sentencing?) and the issues of public protection and that sentences should have a deterrent effect. Further reflection on and understanding of the issues and the experience where the best interests of the child is taken into account may help to dispel the idea of such a conflict.
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Dr Liz Brutus – Families Outside – May 2018
This report presents findings of the evaluation of the Families Outside Family Support Worker (FSW) role from a health perspective. The evaluation, conducted in 2011, collected information and data from interviews with the FSWs who are managed by Families Outside, service users and analysis of the FSW database over a six month period.
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Tânia Loureiro – Families Outside – July 2016
The intention of this paper is to look at how sexual offences affect the families of perpetrators and, in particular, provide a brief review of the existing services and support available in Scotland for families of people who have committed a sexual offence. These families are not a priority for professionals in the prevention and treatment of sexual offending, and this is reflected by the lack of research devoted to them
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Dr Margaret Malloch – Families Outside – October 2013
This scoping study explored the support available to families when a young person is placed in secure accommodation. It identified what practical and emotional support families may need when a young person is admitted to secure accommodation, during their placement and at the point of their transition back to the community or to a Young Offender Institution. The study considers what support currently exists, whether the needs of families are met appropriately, and where gaps in support for families can be identified.
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Candice McGillivray – Families Outside – March 2016
This paper reviews the more recent literature in this field, including academic research and information from government agencies and interest groups, with a view to identifying developments in knowledge, policy and practice. Literature on the families of drug users is included, given the similarity of the support needs of this group and the barriers to support these families encounter as a result of association with someone suffering from substance misuse (Scottish Families Affected by Drugs 2009).
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Donald Dickie – Families Outside – August 2013
The purpose of this paper is to focus attention on what happens to Scottish families, in financial terms, when a family member is imprisoned. There is a considerable amount of published work on the effects of imprisonment on families, but the majority of the research has explored the health, social and emotional impact on families, especially children. There are to date no published papers about the financial aspect of imprisonment and Scottish families.
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Sarah Roberts – Families Outside – September 2012
The report provides an overview of the main issues relating to schools and parental imprisonment, gives an account of the programmes that where visited in Australia and United States, and concludes with a set of proposals for further development work in this field.
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Dr Anna Kotova – Families Outside – May 2017
This paper seeks to go beyond the small but fascinating field of studies that uncovers the experiences of offenders’ families and consider specifically why female partners of male child sex offenders (who may also be mothers to the child-victims) are often blamed for the offender’s crime and are widely stigmatised. We know that the society and the criminal justice system often blame and stigmatise families of offenders in general – for instance, the law holds parents accountable for the crimes of their children via parenting orders.
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Tânia Loureiro – Families Outside – March 2010
This report presents the findings of a small scale pilot study to explore the experiences of children and young people who have had a family member sent to prison. Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP) commissioned Families Outside to undertake the work between October and December 2009.
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Tânia Loureiro – Families Outside – November 2009
This report examines the literature regarding the impact of imprisonment on children as well as the views of key stakeholders regarding the benefits and logistics of highlighting this impact through Child or Family Impact Statements in court. The purpose of such Statements is for judges to know the impact their decisions are likely to have on an offender’s family.
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Agnieszka Martynowicz – Families Outside – November 2011
This report is a summary of a study funded by the EU from October 2009-May 2011 led by the Danish Institute of Human Rights in collaboration with the University of Ulster and EUROCHIPS2 . Its focus was to examine the rights of children of imprisoned parents and to consider the following questions: Are children’s rights considered and respected when their parents are imprisoned? Do the police, prison services, courts take note of the situation of children at each stage of the criminal justice process?
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Scottish Government – 24/11/2016
This strategy provides a shared vision to help partners and communities work together effectively to improve community justice outcomes.
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Scottish Government – 2005
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision for the establishment of community justice authorities; to make further provision for the supervision and care of persons put on probation or released from prison etc.; to make further provision as respects the procedures etc.
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Legislation.gov.uk – 2016
This strategy provides a shared vision to help partners and communities work together effectively to improve community justice outcomes. The Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 places duties on statutory partners who have a key role to play in improving community justice outcomes.
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Families Outside website
Families Outside is a national charity in Scotland that works solely to support children and families affected by imprisonment.
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Glasgow City HSPC Website
Health and Social Care Partnerships, (HSCPs) are the organisations formed as part of the integration of services provided by Health Boards and Councils in Scotland. Each partnership is jointly run by the NHS and local authority.
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The Croft
The Croft has been supporting people visiting HMP Barlinnie since 2012. Staff and volunteers are based in the Waiting Area of the prison before most visits to speak with visitors.
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Scottish Families – 2021
Scottish Families have a big ambition: No more hidden families. This Spring we are hosting a series of events to tell a family member’s story of living with problematic alcohol and drug use.
