Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage

Although much research has focused on how imprisonment transforms the life course of dis-advantaged black men, researchers have paid little attention to how parental imprisonment alters the social experience of childhood. This article estimates the risk of parental imprisonment by age 14 for black and white children born in 1978 and 1990. This article also estimates the risk of parental impris-onment for children whose parents did not fi nish high school, fi nished high school only, or attende