The expansion of the penal system has been one of the most dramatic trends in contemporary American society. A wealth of research has examined the impact of …
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …
An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom …
Unprecedented numbers of children experience parental incarceration worldwide. Families and children of prisoners can experience multiple difficulties after parental incarceration …
K Turney, R Goodsell - The Future of Children, 2018 - JSTOR
A half century ago, relatively few US children experienced the incarceration of a parent. In the decades since, incarceration rates rose rapidly (before leveling off more recently), and …
While policy makers have long extolled the benefits of incarceration, criminologists have expended considerable effort demonstrating the harmful collateral consequences of …
Mass incarceration has profoundly restructured the life courses of not only marginalized adult men for whom this event is now so prevalent but also their families. We examined …
A Geller, CE Cooper, I Garfinkel, O Schwartz-Soicher… - Demography, 2012 - Springer
High rates of incarceration among American men, coupled with high rates of fatherhood among men in prison, have motivated recent research on the effects of parental …
A burgeoning literature considers the consequences of mass imprisonment for the well- being of adult men and—albeit to a lesser degree—their children. Yet virtually no …