1. Participants' gender distribution
 
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2. Participants' age distribution
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3. The incarcerated parent
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4. Duration of incarceration as up to the time of the research
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5. Length of sentence still to be served, in years, by incarcerated parents
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5. Children's knowledge of their parent's incarceration
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4. Participants' family situation before commencement of the incarceration
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5. Changes within the children/adolescents after commencement of their parent's incarceration
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6. Possible effects resulting from the participants' parents' incarceration
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7. Comparison of overall effects upon child and adolescent participants
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8. Participants' academic achievement after their parents' incarceration
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9. Children's classmates' knowledge of their parents' incarceration
33% stated that their classmates knew that one of their parents was incarcerated.
67% stated that they did not know.
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10. Adolescents' classmates' knowlede of their parents' incarceration
87.5% stated that their friends did know.
Yet 50% of these stated that only one or very few classmates knew of the incarceration.
12.5% chose to abstain from responding to this quiery.
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11. Participants' perception of the incarcerated parent
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Many children expressed a great love for their incarcerated parent.
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In the case of adolescents, these tended to mention a number of negative qualities their incarcerated parent had. However many seemed to excuse him/her, blaming these characteristics upon bad influences and upbringing. All of them seem to love their parent. Many mentioned several positive points at times, some even stating that they are proud of them.
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12. Participants' perception as to why their parent is incarcerated
62.5% of all adolescent participants stated that their incarcerated parent was so as a result of doing something wrong.
25% gave the real reason as to why the parent was incarcerated.
25% added that their incarcerated parent was easily influenced and/or ‘too good’ and fell victim of peer pressure.
25% stated that their incarcerated parent did not have a very good upbringing.
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13. Participants' feeling at contact visits with their incarcerated parent
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14. Participants' perception of the contact visit's time - is it enough?
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15. Aspects of the contact visit that the participants dislike
- The search
- Too much noise
- Lack of privacy
- Unclean environment
- Cigarette smoke
- Too many people
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16. Adolescents' encounter of support in difficult moments
74% of adolescents stated that they did find support and help during difficult moments.
26% stated the opposite.
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17. From whom adolescents found support
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18. Participants' opinion on the police and the way they do their duty
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19. Adolescents' perception of the courts of justice
74% stated that they do not have faith in the courts of justice.
13% stated the opposite.
13% were doubtful.
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