Far From Home: An Examination of the Juvenile Visitation Experience and the Barriers to Getting There

Despite a growing body of research on prison visitation, very few studies have examined visitation among committed juvenile offenders. As a result, we have little understanding of how youth experience visits and why some never receive them. This article fills these gaps. Using surveys collected from...

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Published inInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology Vol. 63; no. 8; pp. 1409 - 1423
Main Authors Young, Brae Campion, Nadel, Melissa R., Bales, William D., Pesta, George B., Greenwald, Mark A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2019
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Adolescent
Appointments and Schedules
Criminals - psychology
Family
Female
Florida
Humans
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile offenders
Male
Punishment
Quality of Life
Residential Facilities
Visitation
Visits
Youth
Florida
juvenile visitation
family visitation
family support
prison visitation
juvenile justice
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Summary:Despite a growing body of research on prison visitation, very few studies have examined visitation among committed juvenile offenders. As a result, we have little understanding of how youth experience visits and why some never receive them. This article fills these gaps. Using surveys collected from 1,202 youth released from residential facilities in Florida, we found that among youth who were visited, they had positive experiences with visits and that families went to great lengths to visit. For those youth who were not visited, the most common barrier was distance from home. However, some youth were not visited because they refused visits or because families withheld visits as punishment. Moreover, despite the possibility that lack of visitation is harmful, we found that most not-visited youth had positive perceptions of their future success. Policy implications and directions for research are discussed.
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ISSN:0306-624X
1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X18823444