Add to ORKGWhen criminals go to prison, society hopefully benefits. These individuals, for example, ideally are less likely to commit new crimes. What, though, if incarceration harms the children of those who we send to prison? Daniel P. Mears and Sonja E. Siennick set out to answer that question and found that the concern is far from hypothetical. Children of incarcerated parents are more likely to go on to engage in criminal behavior, have mental health problems, use illegal drugs, and fare worse in their educational achievement, earnings, and intimate relationships
Of the more than two million persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons, the majority are also parents to ...
Recent literature has documented the negative intergenerational effects of parental incarceration on...
Traditional discussions about sentencing policy pay scant attention to the effects of imprisonment o...
When criminals go to prison, society hopefully benefits. These individuals, for example, ideally are...
Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five ...
It is no secret that the Criminal Justice System has been put into question and even more so in rece...
Summarizes findings, based on data from the Fragile Families Study in twenty cities, on how children...
As the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates around the world, young children hav...
As the growing prison population continues, children from all over face the many challenges and adve...
For many American families, incarceration has become a way of life. Per the National Resource Center...
The incarceration boom in the United States has resulted in high rates of parents serving time. Acc...
Despite the slowdown in incarceration rates that has occurred in recent years, more than one child i...
Over the past two decades, the number of imprisoned adults in the United States has quadrupled. Mirr...
As the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates around the world, young children hav...
The increasing number of incarcerated men and women has led to a corresponding increase in the numbe...
Of the more than two million persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons, the majority are also parents to ...
Recent literature has documented the negative intergenerational effects of parental incarceration on...
Traditional discussions about sentencing policy pay scant attention to the effects of imprisonment o...
When criminals go to prison, society hopefully benefits. These individuals, for example, ideally are...
Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five ...
It is no secret that the Criminal Justice System has been put into question and even more so in rece...
Summarizes findings, based on data from the Fragile Families Study in twenty cities, on how children...
As the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates around the world, young children hav...
As the growing prison population continues, children from all over face the many challenges and adve...
For many American families, incarceration has become a way of life. Per the National Resource Center...
The incarceration boom in the United States has resulted in high rates of parents serving time. Acc...
Despite the slowdown in incarceration rates that has occurred in recent years, more than one child i...
Over the past two decades, the number of imprisoned adults in the United States has quadrupled. Mirr...
As the United States has one of the highest incarceration rates around the world, young children hav...
The increasing number of incarcerated men and women has led to a corresponding increase in the numbe...
Of the more than two million persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons, the majority are also parents to ...
Recent literature has documented the negative intergenerational effects of parental incarceration on...
Traditional discussions about sentencing policy pay scant attention to the effects of imprisonment o...