Young Brae Campion, Nadel Melissa R, Bales William D, Pesta George B, Greenwald Mark A
1 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
2 Abt Associates, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2019 Jun;63(8):1409-1423. doi: 10.1177/0306624X18823444.
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.
尽管关于监狱探视的研究越来越多，但很少有研究考察过被关押的少年犯的探视情况。因此，我们对青少年如何体验探视以及为何有些青少年从未获得探视知之甚少。本文填补了这些空白。通过对从佛罗里达州住宿设施获释的1202名青少年进行的调查，我们发现，在获得探视的青少年中，他们对探视有积极的体验，而且家人竭尽全力前来探视。对于那些未获得探视的青少年来说，最常见的障碍是离家距离远。然而，有些青少年未获得探视是因为他们拒绝探视，或者家人以拒绝探视作为惩罚手段。此外，尽管缺乏探视可能有害，但我们发现，大多数未获得探视的青少年对自己未来的成功仍持积极看法。文中还讨论了政策含义和研究方向。
