Abstract
Drawing upon direct research with children, the far-reaching consequences of maternal imprisonment on dependent children are investigated. By directly engaging with children and their caregivers, the confounding nature of children’s grief, expressed through behavioural changes, is explored. Grief originates from negatively impacting social processes, experienced as a direct consequence of maternal imprisonment. ‘Secondary prisonisation’ of the child is characterised by changes in home and caregiver and the prison’s regulation of the mother and child relationship. ‘Secondary stigmatisation’ occurs when children are stigmatised by virtue of their relationship with their mother. Identification of the direct harms to children from maternal imprisonment calls into question the state’s fulfillment of its duty to protect these children under Article 2 of the UNCRC 1989.
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