System-involved and Formerly-Incarcerated Mothers Materializing Grief

WICC2025 presentation by Dr Katherine Maldonado (WICC2025-PID056)

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Dr Katherine Maldonado

Assistant Professor, University of Utah, United States

Dr. Maldonado Fabela holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include critical criminology, health, inequalities, and feminist and visual methodology. Her current book project examines the experiences of Latina/Chicana mothers within the carceral system, focusing on their interactions with child removal. The study highlights the violence and grief these mothers face, the impact on their mental health, and mechanisms of recovery and healing through motherwork strategies. The book explores the long term consequences of carceral experiences on health, and the healing that mothers engage with through loss and recovery.

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