L’osservazione degli stili educativi padri-figli nella struttura penitenziaria

This contribution is a part of a wider research project carried out in Prison of Milan-Opera (Italy),whose aim was to orientate the interest on the role of father and on the most appropriate educationalstrategies to keep alive the role and the parental bond. To achieve this objective, a multidisciplinarymethodological approach was used: the risks correlated to the detention status withrespect to the emotional relationship of an imprisoned father (personal experiences, sense offrustration and/or guilt, feeling of failure/impotence, avoidance/denial of the problem, etc.);the ways in which the individual prisoner attempts to decline his or her parental role; the possiblepedagogical support that education professionals can offer