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Stigma, Power, and the Reproduction of Inequality

Punishment and Pakistani Families in Britain

Av Tahir Abass-Karim

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This book examines what happens to families when a relative is imprisoned, focusing on the experiences of British Pakistani families in England and Wales. It shows how imprisonment reaches beyond the person sentenced, reshaping family and community relationships and interacting with existing social, racial and gender inequalities.The book places these experiences within the history of Pakistani migration and settlement in Britain and examines how racialisation, the securitisation of Muslim identity, extended family and kinship networks, and cultural understandings of honour, shame and reputation shape experiences of imprisonment. It traces how the consequences of imprisonment unfold across encounters with the criminal justice system, community and kinship relations, and family life, showing how they can compound inequalities that existed long before imprisonment.At its centre is a new conceptual framework, the Stigma–Power Matrix, which explains how penal stigma can acquire consequences beyond the individual formally punished, and how those consequences are reworked across institutions, communities, kinship networks and family life. It demonstrates how the consequences of stigmatisation are shaped by existing inequalities and unequal access to resources. As the first book-length study of imprisonment and British Pakistani families, the book brings race, gender, culture, family and inequality into the study of prisoners’ families and challenges the conventional assumption that the consequences of punishment end with the prisoner.The book will be of interest to students and scholars of criminology and criminal justice, particularly those working on race and ethnicity, punishment and inequality, prisoners’ families, and the sociology of family and relationships.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International license.
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Tahir Abass-Karim is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. His research examines punishment, inequality and prisoners’ families, with particular interests in race, racialisation, Muslim communities and the social consequences of imprisonment.

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This is a compelling account of the experiences of prisoners’ families within British Pakistani Muslim communities. Theoretically rich and insightful, Abass’s conceptualisation of the Stigma-Power Matrix brings Bourdieu’s relational sociology into dialogue with stigma scholarship. Through his detailed empirical illustrations he demonstrates how the classificatory powers of the penal system operate in interaction with the culturally-inflected social spaces of British Pakistani Muslim communities and their historically subordinated and racialised positioning within the wider social order. Although neither consequentially fixed nor uniform, Abass illustrates how such penal classificatory power in combination with processes of social stigmatisation can operate as a form of symbolic violence, resulting in everyday and seemingly legitimate practices of exclusion of prisoners’ families from community networks, social opportunities and support. Beyond the illuminative portrayal of how British Pakistani Muslim families of prisoners succumb to, negotiate, or resist the negatively-valued classifications of penal and community authorities, this book conveys a powerful message about the importance of a socio-cultural and qualitative understanding of the impact of imprisonment on the family and community. Caroline Lanskey, Associate Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of CambridgeThis book makes an important and much-needed contribution to the expanding literature on prisons and the family. For decades, we have lacked empirical research on how ethnic minorities in the UK experience imprisonment within the family. Abass addresses this gap while also developing a finely tuned theoretical framework that enables us to understand the power structures through which stigma operates, affecting prisoners' families as a form of symbolic violence. As Abass demonstrates, these processes often serve to reproduce and reinforce pre-existing inequalities.Peter Scharff Smith, Professor in the Sociology of Law, Oslo UniversityThis book offers new insights into the power and ramifications of racialized stigma and its relational dimensions. It is thoughtfully and rigorously argued and situated in a broader historical and socio-political context.Coretta Phillips, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, The London School of Economics and Political ScienceDrawing on research with British Pakistani families, this book develops a Stigma–Power Matrix to examine how penal stigma becomes entangled with racism, Islamophobia and poverty. It explores how stigma reaches into families, kinship networks and communities, deepening existing inequalities, especially those of gendered care and economic hardship. Essential reading for scholars of punishment, race and social inequality.Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University

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