Incarceration Vs Prison

There is a plethora of research surrounding the phenomena of incarceration, however, the predominant theme is either the prisoner or prisons (Light & Campbell, 2006). This is also consistent with the myopic views of the media. Headlines surrounding incarceration typically use shock tactics to manipulate society's attention to crime and punishment. What isn't considered is the network of parents, siblings, partners and children who have existed in the shadows throughout every stage of the adjudication process; serving a metaphorical sentence of their own (....,...). ..... refers to this group of people as the 'forgotten victims of crime' . The first study on prisoner's families was conducted by Morris (1965). During this time the prison population