Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice

NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Jitka, Pavel NAVRÁTIL, Monika PUNOVÁ and Veronika SMUTNÁ. Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice. Qualitative Social Work. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2024, vol. 23, No 1, p. 11-25. ISSN 1473-3250. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14733250221151030.

Basic information

• Original name: Needs of Children With Incarcerated Parents in Their Own Voice
• Authors: NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Jitka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pavel NAVRÁTIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Monika PUNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Veronika SMUTNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Qualitative Social Work, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications, 2024, 1473-3250.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50902 Social sciences, interdisciplinary
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 1.700 in 2022
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14733250221151030
• UT WoS: 000908319400001
• Keywords in English: Children’s needs; parenting; incarcerated parents; capability approach; children’s voices

Abstract

Even though Czech social policy cites child protection as one of its main priorities, there continue to be groups of children whose needs remain unnoticed. As many as forty thousand Czech children with at least one incarcerated parent have failed to gain public attention, find no support in the national legislative framework, and are only slowly attracting the attention of helping professionals. Guided by our research question—“What are the needs of children whose parent leaves the household due to incarceration?”—we describe the individual needs of children of incarcerated parents in their own voices through phenomenological optics. These needs, recorded via individual interviews and focus groups, contextualized using the theoretical methodology of the capability approach, which serves as the framework for assessing the relationship between the stated needs of these children and their overall well-being.

Links

• TL03000199, research and development project: Name: Rodičovství za mřížemi

Investor: Technology Agency of the Czech Republic