Growth in US incarceration rates during the 1980s and 1990s prompted a body of research
focused on understanding the diverse effects of incarceration on individuals, families, and …

Parenting and romantic partnership changes and challenges that occur in the context of
incarceration are not yet fully understood, in part due to longstanding limitations in available …

Extant research on maternal incarceration has focused either on mothers as a whole (not
disaggregated by race) or on the experiences of urban Black mothers, with relatively little …

Limited attention has been directed at adult children with a history of parental incarceration.
The goal of the current study is to expand our understanding of the gendered effects of …

The number of individuals involved in the criminal justice system is at a historic high. There
are almost 2.3 million individuals in US jails and prisons and more than 798,000 people on …

Social workers are becoming increasingly aware of the unique experiences faced by
children of incarcerated parents. Little is known, however, about their experiences prior to …

Wakefield and Wildeman (2011, this issue) provide compelling evidence that the effects of
the incarceration boom experienced by the United States during the past 40 years extend …

This research sought to identify a potential process by which intergenerational crime occurs,
focusing on the effect of parental incarceration on adolescents' subsequent arrests. We drew …

This study explores the service needs of adolescent children of prisoners by collecting
information directly from the youth. The conceptual and empirical literature focused on …

Women are the most rapidly growing group of prisoners in Western jurisdictions, with the
majority of them mothers. Research conducted over the past 40 years has concentrated on …