The “Pseudo-Family” Structure in Women’s Prisons: Domestic Roles as Coping and Support Systems Podcast By cover art

The “Pseudo-Family” Structure in Women’s Prisons: Domestic Roles as Coping and Support Systems

The “Pseudo-Family” Structure in Women’s Prisons: Domestic Roles as Coping and Support Systems

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Explore the distinct social organization in women’s correctional facilities, where inmates frequently form pseudo-families—adopting roles as mothers, fathers, siblings, and grandparents—to recreate domestic support structures absent in the outside world.
This episode contrasts these relational networks with the gang-based hierarchies typical in men’s prisons and examines the psychological, emotional, and adaptive functions of pseudo-family dynamics in mitigating the pains of imprisonment.
Essential listening for correctional professionals, criminologists, psychologists, social workers, and students of gender and incarceration seeking evidence-based insight into female prison culture and rehabilitation strategies.
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