Institute for Excellence in Justice Symposium
During her presentation, Dr. Creasie Finney Hairston, Professor and Dean of the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago, provides an overview of how families experience and manage community reentry. Based primarily on research conducted with men returning home from prison and their wives and girlfriends, the presentation describes the impact of incarceration and community reentry on family relationships. Families as sources of support, conflict and domestic violence, parent-child relationships, and parole practices and expectations are among the topics covered.