From Offending To Reoffending.
Families of offenders pay the price when it's not their crime.
Relationships are impaired yet offenders rely on the kin for lodging. Living in such conditions breed the conditions of return to drug use.
Emotional losses
Financial Dissolution
Excess workload
They experience family upheavals, forced separation, and broken ties. For children, loss of parents / caregivers results in abandonment trauma, disrupting normal development.
The loss of a contributing family member to police remand or a prison term disturbs the distribution of duties in the household, carry serious implications for the family.
Fulfilling prison obligations add onto the workload.
Criminal defence expenditure, loss of income when in prison, receiving a low pay grade that normally accompanies a criminal record, are some ways that can lead a family to financial dissolution.