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Prisoner Mothers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Dennis Challinger
Dennis Challinger*
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University of Melbourne
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There can be few more emotional issues in penology than female prisoners’ relationships with their children. Two situations need to be considered. Firstly, when the child is an infant, say, up to three years of age, there are problems concerning mother and child living together during mother’s imprisonment.

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Children Australia , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Winter 1982, pp. 24 - 29
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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