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16 results foundAuthor: Phillips, Susan D. Title: Making “The Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents” a Reality: Evaluation Report Summary: When we send someone to prison, we tend to think of it as the endpoint in a process: someone has violated the law, been caught, tried, and sentenced to confinement away from others. However, for millions of children whose parents are sent to jail or prison, the process does not stop there. While their parents are in prison, children worry about who will care for them, wonder if they are somehow to blame for their parents getting into trouble, and struggle to keep their parents’ whereabouts hidden from others to avoid being teased or rejected. Being separated from a parent – even a parent who has broken the law – leaves a hole in a child’s life. When children are separated from their parents for other reasons such as divorce, death, or military service, we offer them comfort and support, and help them come to terms with what has happened. In contrast, when we send parents to prison, we are often oblivious to the pain, fears, and anxieties their children experience. After years of working with, talking to, and studying children whose parents had been to prison, the San Francisco Partnership for Incarcerated Parents developed The Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents. These are not rights in the legal sense; they are not mandated by law. Instead, they are a set of goals which, if achieved, would help to assure that children’s fundamental needs for safety, security, and belonging are met. This is no more than we offer any other children who face crises because something out of the ordinary has happened to their parents. Before children can benefit from The Bill of Rights, however, the rights have to be translated into changes in the way individuals and systems treat children whose parents are incarcerated. For example, the goal of children being able to see, touch, and talk with their parents while their parents are incarcerated might be achieved by allowing children to visit with their incarcerated parents in special settings within correctional facilities where parents and children can talk and interact freely. Making this a reality might require getting approval from corrections administrators, obtaining the cooperation of security staff, and securing resources to revamp a space in the facility. There are a number of groups around the country that are working to translate the broadly defined goals outlined in The Bill of Rights into specific changes in the way systems and individuals treat children of incarcerated parents. To further these efforts, The Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation funded a Senior Fellow to provide technical assistance for 14 months. Her objectives were to: (1) share knowledge based on her own experience providing services and advocating for children of incarcerated parents and her training in developmental psychology; (2) facilitate contact with the authors of The Bill of Rights and trainers and practitioners from The Family and Corrections Network; and (3) serve as a “cross pollinator”, carrying ideas and strategies between groups. This report presents an evaluation of this project. Details: Chicago: Jane Addams College of Social Work, 2008. 69p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 9, 2011 at: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/college/research_public_service/files/BORTechAsstEval_final2_SP.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/college/research_public_service/files/BORTechAsstEval_final2_SP.pdf Shelf Number: 122341 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Christian, Steve Title: Children of Incarcerated Parents Summary: The nation’s growing prison and jail population has raised serious questions about the collateral effects of incarceration on children, families and communities. Whatever one’s views about the appropriate role of incarceration in the criminal justice system, it is clear that imprisonment disrupts positive, nurturing relationships between many parents — particularly mothers — and their children. In addition, many families with children suffer economic strain and instability when a parent is imprisoned. Research suggests that intervening in the lives of incarcerated parents and their children to preserve and strengthen positive family connections can yield positive societal benefits in the form of reduced recidivism, less intergenerational criminal justice system involvement, and promotion of healthy child development. In the words of one prominent researcher, “[s]tudies . . . indicate that families are important to prisoners and to the achievement of major social goals, including the prevention of recidivism and delinquency.” Because this area is fraught with major data gaps, it is recommended that policymakers begin their exploration of the subject by posing a series of questions to their staffs and the heads of agencies with jurisdiction over law enforcement, corrections, child welfare, education and welfare, as well as child advocates, the university community and others who have an interest in ensuring the well-being of children whose parents are in custody. This report proposes a list of such questions, each followed by a discussion that is intended, not so much as a definitive answer, but as general background information. The information identifies only general trends, since specific answers to the questions posed will differ by state, depending on factors such as the existing policy context and service array, demographic trends and available data. Details: Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures, 2009. 18p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 12, 2011 at: http://www.ncsl.org/documents/cyf/childrenofincarceratedparents.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.ncsl.org/documents/cyf/childrenofincarceratedparents.pdf Shelf Number: 122379 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Geller, Amanda Title: Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development Summary: 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 imprisonment on children’s development. We contribute to this literature using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the relationship between paternal incarceration and developmental outcomes for approximately 3,000 urban children. We estimate cross-sectional and longitudinal regression models that control not only for fathers’ basic demographic characteristics and a rich set of potential confounders, but also for several measures of pre-incarceration child development and family fixed effects. We find that paternal incarceration is associated with significant increases in children’s aggressive behavior at age five, and some evidence of increased attention problems. The estimated effects of paternal incarceration are stronger than those of other forms of father absence, suggesting that children with incarcerated fathers may require specialized support from caretakers, teachers, and social service providers. The estimated effects are also stronger for children who lived with their fathers prior to incarceration, but are significant for children of nonresident fathers, suggesting that incarceration places children at risk through family hardships including and beyond parent-child separation. Details: Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2010. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Fragile Families Working Paper: WP09-20-FF: Accessed August !7, 2011 at: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP09-20-FF.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP09-20-FF.pdf Shelf Number: 122417 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Sugie, Naomi F. Title: Punishment and Welfare: Paternal Incarceration and Families’ Receipt of Public Assistance Summary: The US criminal justice and welfare systems together form important government interventions into the lives of the poor. This paper considers how imprisonment is related to welfare receipt for offenders and their families. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, it investigates how recent paternal incarceration is associated with families‟ receipt of TANF, food stamps, and Medicaid/SCHIP. Results robust to multiple tests find that incarceration does not increase the likelihood of TANF receipt but significantly increases food stamps and Medicaid/SCHIP receipt. Further, the effect of incarceration on welfare receipt is larger than the recent loss of father‟s employment. The findings suggest that an unexpected consequence of mass imprisonment is the expansion of government regulation through welfare provision for offenders‟ families. Details: Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2011. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Fragile Families Working Paper:WP11-09-FF: Accessed August 17, 2011 at: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-09-FF.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-09-FF.pdf Shelf Number: 122418 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Economic AssistanceFamilies of InmatesPublic Welfare |
Author: Haskins, Anna R. Title: The Unintended Consequences of Mass Imprisonment: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness Summary: Though sociologists have examined the consequences of mass imprisonment of African-American men on the incarcerated men, their families, and their communities, no study has considered its impact on racial disparities in educational achievement. Analyzing the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and its rich paternal incarceration data, this study asks whether children with fathers who have been in prison are less prepared for school both academically and behaviorally as a result, and whether racial disparities in imprisonment explain some of the gap in white and black children‘s educational outcomes. Using a variety of estimation strategies, I show that experiencing paternal incarceration by age 5 is associated with lower child school readiness in behavioral but not cognitive skills. While the main effect of incarceration does not vary by race, boys with incarcerated fathers in their early childhood years have substantially worse behavioral skills at school entry. Because of the negative effects of incarceration on boys‘ behavioral skills and the much higher exposure of black children to incarceration, mass incarceration facilitates the intergenerational transmission of male behavioral disadvantage, and plays a role in explaining the persistently low achievement of black boys. Details: Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Sociology, 2011. 65p. Source: Internet Resource: Fragile Families Working Paper: 11-18-FF; Accessed September 24, 2011 at: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-18-FF.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP11-18-FF.pdf Shelf Number: 122892 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)EducationFamilies of InmatesSchool Readiness |
Author: Hairston, Creasie Finney Title: Kinship Care When Parents Are Incarcerated: What We Know, What We Can Do Summary: When a parent is incarcerated, it affects their children, their extended family and the greater community. Family members who step in to care for the children during the parent’s absence face many obstacles. As well as practical considerations, such as domestic arrangements and financial issues, families must also meet the demands of the child welfare and criminal justice systems, and cope with the effects of social, community and institutional stigma. Many families are also dealing with issues such as poverty, and physical and mental illness. There are even greater stressors for the Native American and Latino populations that are over-represented in our prisons. Kinship arrangements made among these populations can be especially problematic, as parents may be incarcerated in prisons located far from reservation lands, isolated further by language barriers and burdened with fears that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) may remove their children from kinship care. Developing a better understanding of existing forms of kinship care for children of parents who are incarcerated is becoming increasingly central to our ability to address important social issues in the United States. Concerns about intergenerational crime and incarceration, significant increases in the number of women going to prison, and high concentrations of arrests in poor, inner city neighborhoods of color have directed considerable attention to the support and care of prisoners’ children. Kinship Care When Parents are Incarcerated examines the involvement of the child welfare system in children’s care and protection when parents are incarcerated, with a focus on kinship care. Kinship care is defined as care in which relatives other than a child’s parent assume parenting responsibilities for the child. It is a common care arrangement for children of incarcerated parents. There are three main forms of kinship care. Formal kinship care, also called relative foster care, refers to care provided by relatives when children are under the custody of the child welfare system. Voluntary kinship care typically refers to care provided by relatives when children are involved in the child welfare system, but not under the state custody. Private kinship care refers to private arrangements that families make without child welfare system involvement. Details: Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 24, 2011 at: http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Topics/Child%20Welfare%20Permanence/Foster%20Care/KinshipCareWhenParentsAreIncarceratedWhatWeKn/10147801_Kinship_Paper06a%203.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Topics/Child%20Welfare%20Permanence/Foster%20Care/KinshipCareWhenParentsAreIncarceratedWhatWeKn/10147801_Kinship_Paper06a%203.pdf Shelf Number: 122894 Keywords: Child Welfare AgenciesChildren of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Bouchet, Stacey M. Title: Children and Families With Incarcerated Parents: Exploring Development in the Field and Opportunities for Growth Summary: Children and families with incarcerated parents not only face the trauma of loss, but also a range of economic and social conditions that result from incarceration. Concerned about the vulnerability of this population, the Annie E. Casey Foundation began an exploration of the nature and scope of this issue and the gaps that need to be filled. This report provides a summary of the Foundation’s findings, a listing of the Foundation’s recent investments in this area, and synthesizes the learnings into potential opportunities for the field at large. Details: Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2008. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 24, 2011 at: http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Topics/Child%20Welfare%20Permanence/Foster%20Care/KinshipCareWhenParentsAreIncarceratedWhatWeKn/10147801_Kinship_Paper06a%203.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Topics/Child%20Welfare%20Permanence/Foster%20Care/KinshipCareWhenParentsAreIncarceratedWhatWeKn/10147801_Kinship_Paper06a%203.pdf Shelf Number: 122895 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership Title: Mentoring: A Promising Intervention for Children of Prisoners Summary: Incarceration rates have increased substantially in the United States over the past several decades (Travis et al., 2001; U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs). As crime rates spiked in this country in the 1980’s, so did the call for more punitive and accountability-based approaches to stem the rising tide of crime. While the debate continues as to the wisdom of the policies that resulted from this crackdown on crime, including the jailing of more drug and other non-violent offenders and longer sentences for violent offenders, there seems to be little controversy over the fact that this trend has caused what one could term “collateral damage.” This damage isn’t to the offenders, victims, or the communities from which the offenders enter local jails or state correctional facilities and federal prisons; although one could argue that the damage resides there as well. The damage is to the children of those offenders, negatively impacted by the incarceration of their parents. It is a group—that, along with their families, has been described as more at-risk than any other subculture in this country (Travis et al., 2001). To better understand children of prisoners, it is necessary to understand the scope of this problem, the life circumstances facing the children and their parents at the time of incarceration, the impact of the incarceration on the children from a developmental perspective, and the potential benefit different types of interventions may provide. This paper explores these issues and the specific benefit mentoring may provide as an intervention. Details: Alexandria, VA: MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, 2007. 32p. Source: Issue 10, Research in Action: Internet Resource: Accessed February 7, 2012 at http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_391.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_391.pdf Shelf Number: 124011 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Intervention ProgramsMentoring |
Author: Nickel, Jessica Title: Children of Incarcerated Parents: An Action Plan for Federal Policymakers Summary: This action plan is designed to help federal leaders improve policies for children of incarcerated parents, but also includes recommendations of value to state and local governments that can facilitate and complement federal initiatives and result in better responses to this population” (p. ix). Sections of this publication include: introduction; children of incarcerated parents—overview and research; coordination across service systems; responses to children during a parent’s arrest; parent-child interactions within correctional systems; support for kinship caregivers of children who parents are incarcerated; foster care and permanence; child support; and state and federal benefits and income support. Details: New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2009. 58p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 17, 2012 at http://www.reentrypolicy.org/jc_publications/federa_action_plan_/Children_Incarcerated_Parents_v8.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.reentrypolicy.org/jc_publications/federa_action_plan_/Children_Incarcerated_Parents_v8.pdf Shelf Number: 124154 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Criminal Justice Policy |
Author: Brazzell, Diana Title: Using Local Data to Explore the Experiences and Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents Summary: The Urban Institute partnered with local research organizations in three sites to learn more about children of incarcerated parents through the merging and analysis of local and state level criminal justice and human services data. The purpose of the project was to better understand the experiences and needs of children of incarcerated parents in each locality and to explore the involvement of affected families with the criminal justice, child welfare, and social welfare systems. This report presents findings from the sites and lessons learned regarding the merging and analysis of administrative data on this population. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, 2008. 14p. Source: Research Report: Internet Resource: Accessed March 2, 2012 at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411698_incarcerated_parents.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411698_incarcerated_parents.pdf Shelf Number: 124361 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Parents, Mothers |
Author: Walker, Sheri Pruitt Title: The Effects of the Incarceration of Fathers on the Health and Wellbeing of Mothers and Children Summary: The male incarceration rate has risen dramatically in the last several decades. Over half of incarcerated men are fathers of minor children. My dissertation focuses specifically on families and addresses various aspects of how mothers and children have been affected by the incarceration of fathers. This research uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWB), a national sample of mostly unwed parents and their children, to estimate the causal effect of the incarceration of fathers on various outcomes for mothers and children. However, since the female partners and children of incarcerated men differ along observable characteristics from other mothers and children in the FFCWB, they are also likely to differ in terms of unobservables, and thus ordinary least squares estimation is unlikely to provide an unbiased estimate of this causal effect. Instead, I employ propensity score matching methods to estimate this effects, exploiting the rich data availability in FFCWB. The first chapter introduces these topics and provides a brief discussion. The second chapter discusses the impact of a father‟s incarceration on the public assistance participation of mothers as measured by welfare and food stamp program participation. A large body of research has examined consequences of incarceration on incarcerated men, while little has analyzed the effect on women who share children with incarcerated men. My research aims to fill this gap. I find robust evidence that, among women with incarcerated partners, a partner‟s incarceration increases the probability that mothers receive both welfare and food stamp benefits. The third chapter considers the effect of father‟s incarceration on the health of mothers and the development of children. The outcome variables I analyze are mothers‟ physical health and mental health as measured by depression and anxiety, as well as child‟s cognitive development and social behavior. My findings indicate that, among children with incarcerated fathers, paternal incarceration adversely affects cognitive development and increases aggressive behavior in children at age five. I also find that, among mothers with incarcerated partners, having a partner that is recently incarcerated adversely affect mothers‟ mental health as measured by depression, but positively affects mothers‟ physical health. Details: College Park, MD: University of Maryland at College Park, 2011. 112p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed May 25, 2013 at: http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/12188/1/PruittWalker_umd_0117E_12530.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/12188/1/PruittWalker_umd_0117E_12530.pdf Shelf Number: 128793 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Meyerson, Jessica Title: Childhood Disrupted: Understanding the Features and Effects of Maternal Incarceration Summary: Between 1991 and midyear 2007, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported the number of mothers in federal and state prisoners had increased a staggering 122 percent. During the same period, the number of children with mothers in prison had more than doubled, rising to almost 150,000 children nationwide. (BJS, 2008) Unfortunately, when women with children are incarcerated, their arrests and imprisonment often have a profound, negative impact on their families. Most children of incarcerated parents are at risk of poverty, instability and problem behaviors; but children with incarcerated mothers are especially vulnerable. Mothers in prison are more likely than fathers to enter incarceration with an identified mental illness. They are more likely to be drug users, to live in poverty and to be victims of physical or sexual abuse. (Travis and Waul, 2003) These factors substantially increase the chances that their children will experience their own emotional and psychological difficulties. (Ingram and Price, 2000; U.S. Surgeon General, 1999) Children whose mothers are incarcerated are also more likely to witness their parents’ arrests and to experience significant trauma and household disruption as a result of those arrests. When a father goes to prison, his children usually remain in the care of their mother; but when a mother is incarcerated, her children are likely to be transferred to the care of a non-parental caregiver. Most often this caregiver is a grandparent or relative, but, in about 11 percent of cases, children of incarcerated mothers are placed in the foster care system—separating them, in many cases, not just from their parents, but also their siblings, other family members and the only homes and communities they have ever known. (BJS, 2008; Mumola, 2000; Travis and Waul, 2003) Despite the explosive growth in the number of mothers who are in prison—and the potentially devastating effects of this incarceration on future generations—there are, at present, only a handful of prisoner reentry programs in the U.S. that are specifically designed to support incarcerated mothers and their families. The purpose of the Look Up and Hope initiative is to address this critical gap in services. Five pilot sites with a strong history of service to incarcerated women and their families—Volunteers of America Dakotas, Volunteers of America Illinois, Volunteers of America Indiana, Volunteers of America Northern New England and Volunteers of America Texas—are currently involved in designing and implementing the initiative. With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Volunteers of America National Office and a variety of federal, state, and local grants, these sites are attempting to provide comprehensive, coordinated, longterm services for incarcerated mothers, their children and their children’s caregivers. Some of the supportive services currently being offered to LUH participants include substance abuse and mental health counseling, vocational training and employment services, rapid re-housing assistance, parenting classes, individual and family therapy, case management services (including home visits from trained clinical social workers), family group conferencing, after school and summer programming for youth and concrete supports (such as assistance with food, clothing and transportation). In designing and implementing the Look Up and Hope initiative, Volunteers of America has partnered with Wilder Research, an independent nonprofit research group in St. Paul, Minn. that specializes in applied social science research. Wilder’s chief role in the initiative has been assisting Volunteers of America in ensuring that their approach to addressing maternal incarceration is strongly research-based and builds on the best available evidence-based practices. In late 2009, Wilder’s research staff collaborated with the field staff of the five pilot LUH sites to carry out one of the nation’s first multiple site, qualitative studies of the strengths and needs of families affected by maternal incarceration. The purpose of this study was to (1) better understand the needs of the specific families being served at the five Look Up and Hope sites, (2) assess the extent to which their needs match those described in the extant literature on families affected by maternal incarceration and (3) recommend any modifications to the LUH program model that might be necessary based on the study results. Wilder’s findings are the focus of this report. Details: Alexandria, VA: Volunteers of America, 2010. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 20, 2013 at: http://www.voa.org/Childhood-Disrupted-Report Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.voa.org/Childhood-Disrupted-Report Shelf Number: 129473 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of InmatesFemale InmatesPrisoner Reentry |
Author: Farrell, Mary Title: Taking the First Step: Using Behavioral Economics to Help Incarcerated Parents Apply for Child Support Order Modifications Summary: The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is the first major effort to apply a behavioral economics lens to programs that serve poor and vulnerable families in the United States. This report presents findings from a behavioral intervention designed to increase the number of incarcerated noncustodial parents in Texas who apply for modifications to reduce the amount of their child support orders. Using a method called "behavioral diagnosis and design" the program redesigned the mailings informing these parents of the option to apply for an order modification. The redesigned materials resulted in a significant increase in applications at relatively low cost and demonstrated the promise of applying behavioral economics principles to improve program implementation and outcomes. Details: Washington, DC: Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014. 64p. Source: Internet Resource: OPRE Report No. 2014-37: Accessed September 12, 2014 at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/resource/taking-the-first-step-using-behavioral-economics-to-help-incarcerated-parents-apply-for-child-support-order-modifications Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/resource/taking-the-first-step-using-behavioral-economics-to-help-incarcerated-parents-apply-for-child-support-order-modifications Shelf Number: 133287 Keywords: Child Abuse and NeglectChild SupportChildren of Prisoners (U.S.)Inmates Families |
Author: Shlafer, Rebecca J. Title: Children with Incarcerated Parents - Considering Children's Outcomes in the Context of Complex Family Experiences Summary: This issue examines the needs of children with incarcerated parents. These children are often overlooked in our schools, clinics, and social service settings. As noted in many ways throughout the article, this is not a homogeneous group - the experiences of these children are varied and changing. Responding to their needs will require attention to their unique life circumstances. The contributing authors reflect expertise with a variety of populations, settings and cultures. They represent some of the many people working in creative, collaborative ways to better understand and serve children of incarcerated parents. One timely example of this type of work is Little Children Big Challenges: Incarceration, Sesame Workshop's new bilingual, multimedia initiative that provides resources to support and comfort young children and their families who are experiencing parental incarceration. Details: St. Paul, MN: Children, Youth & Family Consortium, University of Minnesota, 2013. 19p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 9, 2014 at: http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/cyfc/our-programs/ereview/docs/June2013ereview.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/cyfc/our-programs/ereview/docs/June2013ereview.pdf Shelf Number: 133951 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of Inmates |
Author: Jacobsen, Wade C. Title: Punished for their Fathers: School Discipline Among Children of the Prison Boom Summary: By the late 2000s the US incarceration rate had risen to more than 4 times what it was in the mid- 1970s, and school suspension rates more than doubled. Many incarcerated men are fathers, yet prior research has not examined the influence of paternal incarceration on children's risk of school discipline. Literature suggests multiple causal pathways: externalizing behaviors, system avoidance, and intergenerational stigmatization. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, I examine the effects of recent paternal incarceration on risk of exclusionary school discipline among urban nine year-olds. Results suggest that (1) recent paternal incarceration increases children's risk of being suspended or expelled from school; (2) effects are largely due to student behavioral problems; (3) beyond behavioral problems, effects are not due to parents' system avoidance following incarceration; and (4) although risk is highest for blacks and boys, effects do not vary by race or gender. Details: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2014. 37p. Source: Internet Resource: Fragile Families Working Paper: 14-08-FF: Accessed October 22, 2014 at: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP14-08-FF.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP14-08-FF.pdf Shelf Number: 133799 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (U.S.)Families of PrisonersSchool Discipline |
Author: Roman, Caterina G. Title: Child Support, Debt, and Prisoner Reentry: Examining the Influences of Prisoners' Legal and Financial Obligations on Reentry Summary: Former prisoners are increasingly facing the burden of financial debt associated with legal and criminal justice obligations in the U.S., yet little research has pursued how - theoretically or empirically - the burden of debt might affect key outcomes in prisoner reentry. To address the limited research, we examine the impact that having legal child support (CS) obligations has on employment and recidivism using data from the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI). In this report we describe the characteristics of adult male returning prisoners with child support orders and debt, and examine whether participation in SVORI was associated with greater services receipt than those in the comparison groups (for relevant services such as child-support services, employment preparation, and financial and legal assistance). We also examine the lagged impacts that child support obligations, legal employment and rearrest have on each other. Results from the crossed lagged panel model using GSEM in STATA indicate that while having child support debt does not appear to influence employment significantly, it does show a marginally significant protective effect - former prisoners who have child support obligations are less likely to be arrested after release from prison than those who do not have obligations. We discuss the findings within the framework of past and emerging theoretical work on desistance from crime. We also discuss the implications for prisoner reentry policy and practice. Details: Philadelphia: Temple University, Department of Criminal Justice, 2015. 84p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 23, 2015 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/248906.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/248906.pdf Shelf Number: 136134 Keywords: Child Support Children of Prisoners (U.S.) Criminal Justice DebtDesistanceEx-Offender EmploymentInmates Families Prisoner ReentryRecidivism |