News

A mother of a prisoner approached us with some reflections and advice for staff supporting prisoners' families. You can read it here. 

The FAIR team have published two chapters in the new Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family. One discusses the recent developments, debates and directions in prisoners' families' research (click here). The other questions the 'caring' stereotypes of partners of imprisoned men (click here). 

 FAIR Study PI, Caroline Lanskey presented findings from the FAIR Study about childrens' resilience to paternal imprisonment over time. Click here to view the slides. 

 Presentations from the FAIR Conference 2019 now available!If you couldn't attend the FAIR Conference - or you did and liked it - our presentations are now available to view. You can also access slides from the day.Presentations cover a wide range of findings from the FAIR Study, as well as excellent talks from other academics and practitioners tal…

 Following a high level of interest, the FAIR Conference on the 25th of June is now fully booked! However, we are still running a waiting list in case of cancellations. If you or a colleague want to get on this then please email Sophie Ellis on sle43@cam.ac.uk

 We are pleased to announce further speakers for the upcoming Families and Imprisonment Research conference. In addition to our keynote speakers and the FAIR research team, we are delighted to be hosting:Dr. Daniel McCarthy and Dr. Maria Adams, University of SurreyDr. Daniel McCarthy is currently a Reader in Criminology at the University of Surrey.…

 We are pleased to announce further details of the talk by our second keynote speaker for the upcoming Families and Imprisonment Research conference on 25th June 2019! Professor Nancy Loucks will be speaking on the challenges and opportunities in supporting prisoners’ families. Prof. Nancy Loucks is the Chief Executive of Families Outside, a nation…

As we approach the FAIR conference on the 25th of June, you can check out some work recently published by the research team in a new book entitled Prisons, Punishment and the Family: Towards A New Sociology of Punishment? (Edited by Rachel Condry & Peter Scharff Smith). Launched at the American Society of Criminology annual conference in 2018, the …

 We are pleased to confirm that the Families and Imprisonment Research conference will take place on Tuesday 25th June 2019. The conference will present key findings from the FAIR Study, alongside a range of expert contributors to the field of families and imprisonment. The conference is free to attend, and we warmly welcome academics and practitio…

It’s been a busy year for the FAIR team! We have presented some of our early findings at the European Society of Criminology annual conference in Sarajevo and the American Society of Criminology annual conference in Atlanta. Topics included patterns of stability and change in ex-prisoners’ families; the relationship between fathers’ imprisonment an…

We are launching a mailing list for the FAIR Study to update anyone interested in our findings, events and papers.If you would like to be kept updated about the progress of the FAIR Study then email fair@hermes.cam.ac.uk ! We look forward to hearing from you.

The FAIR Study team are pleased to announce that we will be holding a conference at the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice at Cambridge University in 2019. The conference will present the findings from the study, and discuss theoretical implications and future research directions.Please email fair@hermes.cam.ac.uk if you would like to …

This year at the ESC 2017 conference in Cardiff, the FAIR team presented a range of papers on families and imprisonment based on data from the earlier study of imprisoned fathers and their families. Topics included the needs and experiences of the partners of imprisoned men; heterogeneity in behavioural outcomes of male prisoners' children; and "pa…