A report by Ross Hextall, in cooperation with the UK charity Children Heard and Seen, academically explores the experiences of children whose parents are imprisoned for sexual offences.
Through semi-structured interviews, the study leads to a series of findings that demonstrate how the nature of a parent's offences (in this regard, sexual offences) has a direct and greater impact on young people undergoing shame and stigmatization.
According to the report, its main aims and research objectives were:
- Identify the harms faced by children with a parent in prison for a sexual offence that is distinct from general offences
- Critically evaluate the appropriateness of state and community responses to these harms, and efforts to support and identify these children
- Explore the views of those with lived experience and those with professional insight
- Formulate recommendations for future research and for the development of more responsive policies
The findings of this paper underline the clear vulnerabilities and traumas of children with a parent in prison for a sexual offence that goes beyond the harms experienced by children with a parent in prison for other offences.
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