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13 results foundAuthor: Gordon, Liz Title: Invisible Children. First Year Report: A Study of the Children of Prisoners Summary: The number of prisoners in Aotearoa/ New Zealand is being driven up by policies and practices that extend prison terms and imprison more offenders. This trend is set to continue for the foreseeable future. There has been virtually no research undertaken in this country that examines the effects of imprisonment on the families and children of prisoners. The aim of this study is to begin to address that gap. The research approach is community-based and collaborative, aiming to build the community sector’s research capacity while undertaking high quality research. The study will estimate how many children have a parent in prison, the social, health, family and educational needs of that group, the role of community organisations, what the international literature says and, over the 3 years of the study, develop a framework for community intervention. Details: Christchurch, NZ: PILLARS, 2009. 76p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 9, 2011 at: http://www.networkers.co.nz/docs/invisible-children-with-cover.pdf Year: 2009 Country: New Zealand URL: http://www.networkers.co.nz/docs/invisible-children-with-cover.pdf Shelf Number: 120957 Keywords: Children of Prisoners (New Zealand)Families of Prisoners |
Author: Gormally, Brian Title: Thematic Evaluation of Funded Projects: Politically-motivated Former Prisoners and their Families Summary: This thematic evaluation focuses on the work of projects which work in the border areas with politically motivated ex-prisoners and their families. Many of these projects have already been individually evaluated in terms of the details of their work and indeed those evaluations form part of the key data drawn upon in the current report. However, the function of this report is to draw out more general themes of broader applicability in assessing the peace and reconciliation outcomes and the impacts of the projects. This review encompasses nine, separate -- indeed sometimes very different -- projects providing services and support for the ex-prisoner community of the Border Region of Ireland and beyond. The projects reviewed include seven, primarily local projects in the border area: Abhaile Aris based in Letterkenny; Expac based in Monaghan; Failte Abhaile based in Dundalk; Failte Chluain Eois based in Clones; La Nua based in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim; Tus Nua Sligeach based in Sligo; and Teach na Failte based in Strabane. In addition, the thematic review also covers the all-Ireland work of Coiste na n-Iarchimi, the central co-ordinating organisation for Republican ex-prisoner projects, as well as The Educational Trust, a project run by the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders that offers grants to individual ex-prisoners or their family members enabling them to take accredited educational courses throughout Ireland. Details: Belfast: Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice School of Law Queen’s University Belfast, 2007. 77p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 7, 2012 at: http://www.seupb.eu/Libraries/Peace_Network_Meetings_and_Events/PN__Thematic_Evaluation_of_Funded_Projects_Politically_motivated_former_prisoners_and_their_families__020210.sflb.ashx Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.seupb.eu/Libraries/Peace_Network_Meetings_and_Events/PN__Thematic_Evaluation_of_Funded_Projects_Politically_motivated_former_prisoners_and_their_families__020210.sflb.ashx Shelf Number: 125902 Keywords: Educational ProgramsEx-OffendersEx-Prisoners (Northern Ireland)Families of PrisonersPrisoner ReentryPrisoner Rehabilitation |
Author: Myslajek, Crystal Title: Racial Disparity of Child Poverty in Minnesota: The Hidden Consequence of Incarceration Summary: Relative to the rest of the United States, Minnesota incarcerates only a small percentage of its population. In fact, Minnesota has the second lowest imprisonment rate1 of all the states. Yet disaggregating the imprisonment rate by race reveals the troublesome fact that African American Minnesotans are in prison at a rate twelve times the rate of whites. Mounting evidence suggests that rather than disrupting a person’s criminal career, incarceration detrimentally impacts a person’s future transitions into conventional domains of life such as employment, education, and family. More immediately, incarceration disrupts not only criminal behavior but other activities as well, such as employment and parenting. As a result, parents who are either in prison or have an incarceration record may have a decreased ability to financially support their children. Thus, it follows that children whose parents are incarcerated are more likely to face poverty. Given this logic, it is not surprising that in addition to the high rate of incarceration for African American adults relative to white adults, a greater percentage of African American children in Minnesota live in poverty than do white, non-Hispanic children. In fact, both the black-white ratios of incarceration rates (12:1) and child poverty rates (6:1)2 are above the national averages (7:1 and 3:1) (Western 2008; U.S Census Bureau 2009). I argue that incarceration has an often overlooked but critical effect on the racial disparity of child poverty in Minnesota. This effect emerges as a result of incarceration’s disruption to educational attainment, employment, and family dynamics. Furthermore, bans on federal benefits for felony-drug offenders may function to exacerbate incarceration’s impact on child poverty. To provide context, this work examines some of the policies contributing to the black-white disparity of incarceration in Minnesota. Details: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2009. 57p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 1, 2012 at: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/50655/1/Myslajek,%20Crystal.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/50655/1/Myslajek,%20Crystal.pdf Shelf Number: 126527 Keywords: Childhood Poverty (Minnesota)Children of PrisonersFamilies of PrisonersRacial Disparities |
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: Minson, Shona Title: Mitigating Motherhood: A study of the impact of motherhood on sentencing decision in England and Wales Summary: This is an exploratory study of the impact of motherhood on mitigation in sentencing decisions in England and Wales. Previous studies have explored the influence of personal mitigation on sentencing decisions but little is known about the way in which judges interpret motherhood in this context. A growing number of children are separated from their mothers by imprisonment, and the state has a duty to protect them from discrimination or punishment suffered as a consequence of the actions of their parents. This study is a preliminary study exploring the visibility of these children in the sentencing process, and examining whether the caring responsibilities of a defendant mother are treated as personal mitigation to reduce sentence length. The study adopts a qualitative and mixed methods approach, combining semi-structured interviews with sentencing transcripts analysis to provide a multi-faceted view of this complex area. The findings highlight that discretion in the application of mitigation leads to inter and intra judge inconsistency. Personal factors including knowledge and experience influence a judge's use of pre-sentence reports. The defendants' sentence was more likely to be mitigated by motherhood if the judge had considered a pre-sentence report, regardless of whether the judge agreed with the recommendations of the report. Details: London: Howard League for Penal Reform, 2014. 46p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 22, 2014 at: https://d19ylpo4aovc7m.cloudfront.net/fileadmin/howard_league/user/pdf/Publications/motherhood_and_sentencing.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://d19ylpo4aovc7m.cloudfront.net/fileadmin/howard_league/user/pdf/Publications/motherhood_and_sentencing.pdf Shelf Number: 133801 Keywords: Children of PrisonersFamilies of PrisonersFemale Offenders (U.K.)Sentencing |
Author: Talbot, Jenny Title: Relative Justice: the experiences and views of family members of people with particular needs in contact with criminal justice and liaison and diversion services Summary: The Bradley Report (Department of Health, 2009) recommended the introduction of liaison and diversion services in police custody suites and criminal courts, and this recommendation is being taken forward. An initial investment to support the development of liaison and diversion services was made in 2011, and in January 2014 the government announced that NHS England would begin to roll out services, across England, in police custody suites and criminal courts. An initial ten trial sites began in April 2014, and these were followed by 16 more sites in April 2015 - providing 53% population coverage across England. A service specification and operating model describe how services should be delivered (NHS England 2014a and 2014b). The expectation is to achieve national coverage by 2017, subject to the submission of the business case to HM Treasury in autumn 2015, and their approval. Liaison and diversion is a process whereby people of all ages with mental health problems, learning disabilities, substance misuse problems or other vulnerabilities are identified and assessed as early as possible as they pass through the criminal justice system. Following screening and assessment, individuals are given access to appropriate services including, but not limited to, mental health and learning disability services, social care, and substance misuse treatment. Information from liaison and diversion assessments is shared appropriately with relevant agencies so that informed decisions can be made, for example, about charging, case management, sentencing and diversion. Diversion may occur within the youth and criminal justice system or away from it, for example, into treatment and care (NHS England 2014b). To help inform the model for liaison and diversion services, NHS England commissioned the Offender Health Collaborative2 (OHC) to undertake 'a national service user consultation on the operating model', and a report was published early 2015. The OHC, in turn, invited the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) to undertake a consultation involving family members and carers3 of people with particular needs in contact with criminal justice services, and with liaison and diversion services, in particular. POPS (Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group) worked in partnership with PRT to recruit family members, and to help organise and run the consultation. It was agreed that four focus groups would be held, involving between 24 and 48 family members, and that two focus groups would be held in the north of England and two in the south. The purpose of these focus groups, and of this report, is to inform the development of liaison and diversion services prior to national roll out in 2017. This report is for those who are concerned with the families of people with particular needs in contact with criminal justice services, and for policy makers and commissioners of liaison and diversion, and wider health and social care services, in particular. The names of family members' relatives, which appear in quotes throughout this report, have been changed to protect their anonymity. Details: London: Prison Reform Trust and POPS, 2015. 52p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 30, 2015 at: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/relative%20justice.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/relative%20justice.pdf Shelf Number: 136898 Keywords: DiversionFamilies of PrisonersFamily InterventionsFamily ServicesLiaison Services |
Author: Murphey, David Title: Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children? Summary: Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million U.S. children have had at least one parent in prison at one time or another-about three times higher than earlier estimates that included only children with a parent currently incarcerated. This report uses the National Survey of Children's Health to examine both the prevalence of parental incarceration and child outcomes associated with it. - Details: Bethesda, MD: Child Right, 2015. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 21, 2016 at: http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-42ParentsBehindBars.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-42ParentsBehindBars.pdf Shelf Number: 138340 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of Prisoners |
Author: Bernstein, Nell Title: Mothers at the Gate: How a powerful Family Movement is Transforming the Juvenile Justice System Summary: One in four women in the United States has a family member in prison. Among black women, this number rises to two in five. The family burden of incarceration falls disproportionately on women - especially black and Latino women - and on families that are low-income and poor. According to a report from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design entitled Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families ' in an overwhelming majority of cases, family members were primarily responsible for the costs associated with having a loved one arrested and/or incarcerated - everything from lawyers' fees, to court-imposed fines, to collect calls and visiting expenses. Eighty-three percent of these family members were women. Further, the report also found that the fiscal costs associated with a family member's incarceration left half of those affected struggling to meet basic needs and more than a third in debt. As of 2013, more than 54,000 juveniles were incarcerated in juvenile detention, correction, or other residential facilities. While this represents a significant decrease from highs in the 1990s, the U.S. still locks up far more of its children than do other countries - 18 times more than France and five times more than South Africa, for instance. Given these numbers, it may not be surprising that a movement of family members - particularly mothers - is developing around the country, a movement that aims to challenge both the conditions in which their loved ones are held and the fact of mass incarceration itself. This report reflects an initial effort to map that movement and to distill the shared wisdom of its leaders. Details: Washington, DC: Institute for Policy Studies, 2016. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed September 3, 2016 at: http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/k-dolan-mothers-at-the-gate-5.3.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/k-dolan-mothers-at-the-gate-5.3.pdf Shelf Number: 140144 Keywords: Families of InmatesFamilies of PrisonersJuvenile Justice ReformParenting |
Author: Glosser, Asaph Title: Simplify, Notify, Modify: Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Incarcerated Parents' Requests for Child Support Modification Summary: This report describes a collaboration between the Washington State Division of Child Support and the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) research team that aimed to increase the number of incarcerated noncustodial parents in Washington who applied for modifications to reduce the amount of their child support orders. The interventions resulted in a: 32 percentage point increase in the number of parents requesting a modification; and a 16 percentage point increase in the number of incarcerated parents receiving a modification to their child support orders within three months. The BIAS team diagnosed bottlenecks in the process for applying for modifications, hypothesized behavioral reasons for the bottlenecks, and designed a sequence of behaviorally informed materials sent to incarcerated parents. These materials provided parents with a series of supports to make them aware that they may be eligible for an order modification and to move them to action. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 2016. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: OPRE Report 2016-43: Accessed November 7, 2016 at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/bias_wa_acf_b508_2.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/bias_wa_acf_b508_2.pdf Shelf Number: 145305 Keywords: Child SupportChildren of PrisonersFamilies of InmatesFamilies of Prisoners |
Author: Sutherland, Lindsay Title: Supporting children and families affected by a family member's offending -- A practitioner's guide Summary: Barnardo’s has over twenty years’ experience supporting children of prisoners through direct services, regional training and national strategic work. Since 2013, i-HOP has supported thousands of professionals across England to work with offenders’ children and families through a national engagement and information service. This guide brings together the learning and expertise from all this work. Using resources and tools from Barnardos services and the i—HOP directory, we’ve produced a practical guide to inform all practitioners working with children and families affected by a family member’s offending. The guide accompanies a practice workshop package delivered by Barnardo's (see Appendix 3 – Training). Details: London: i-HOP and Barnardo's, 2017. 72p Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 30, 2017 at: http://www.i-hop.org.uk/ci/fattach/get/870/0/filename/i-HOP+PractitionersGuide_Interactive_Pages.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.i-hop.org.uk/ci/fattach/get/870/0/filename/i-HOP+PractitionersGuide_Interactive_Pages.pdf Shelf Number: 144636 Keywords: Children of Prisoners Families of Inmates Families of Prisoners |
Author: DeHart, Dana D. Title: The Impact of Incarceration on Families: A Single-Jurisdiction Pilot Using Triangulated Administrative Data & Qualitative Interviews Summary: This project utilizes three strategies to investigating the impact of incarceration on families. First, we tap into a powerful, statewide integrated data system to examine impacts of incarceration in a novel way, using administrative data from corrections, juvenile justice, mental health, social services, substance use services, healthcare, and education. Statewide corrections visitation data from male and female adult offenders are linked to multi-agency administrative data to create a de=identified data processing "cube" representing service utilization for focal prisoners (n = 18,786) and their visitors (n = 44,848) including children, married and unmarried partners, parents, siblings, and others. The cube allows authorized users to easily manipulate multi-agency data to answer queries and create visual displays through tables and graphs. Inclusion of time as a variable standardized to pre-incarceration, incarceration, and post-release periods allows cube users to explore impacts of incarceration on service utilization and outcomes for families. Second, we link multi-agency data to address specific research questions regarding impact of incarceration on families, including impact of incarceration on family physical and mental health, children's involvement with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, family receipt of economic services, and school performance. Third, we conduct focus groups and family interviews with 77 prisoners and 21 prisoner family members sampled from three correctional facilities. We identify qualitative themes regarding impact of incarceration in the lives of prisoners and their families. Here we summarize major points for each of our three strategies, with further detail available in published manuscripts, briefs, and presentations in the Appendix. Details: Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2017. 159p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 6, 2017 at: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250657.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250657.pdf Shelf Number: 144736 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of PrisonersPrisoners |
Author: Galdeano, Ana Paula Title: Brasil - Niños y niñas con madres y padres encarcelados por delitos de drogas menores no violentos (Brazil - Children with mothers and fathers imprisoned for non-violent minor drug offenses) Summary: This article addresses the specific situation of children and adolescents (NNA) with adult referents imprisoned for drug offenses in Brazil. The study of this problem is a challenging task due to the absence of official and academic information on how many They are and how these children live. In Brazil we found few studies on children with imprisoned parents (NNAPES, from here onwards) However, literature on the subject has increased in recent years (Braga and Angotti, 2015; Galdeano et al., 2018). In this sense, the bibliographical research of Ormenõ, Maia and Willians (2013) indicates that the Brazilian production on the subject is still small in comparison with the North American one; proof of this is that they only identified five scientific articles on the subject in question. In general, these works resort to theoretical references of psychology and seek to understand the impacts of incarceration on the affective dimension of the sons and daughters of people deprived of their freedom. In North America it has been identified that the impacts of incarceration imply issues such as social stigma, traumas derived from having witnessed the arrest of parents, regressive and antisocial behavior, early involvement in crime, feelings of anxiety, guilt, loneliness and abandonment, low self-esteem, various disorders in feeding, sleep and attention, among others (Cunningham and Baker, 2003; Johnston, 1995; apud Ormenõ, Maya and Willians, 2013). It should be noted that the English-language works are focused, above all, in the children of imprisoned women. In addition, in Latin America some studies have been carried out to know the reality of the NNAPES, which includes various recommendations in this regard. An important contribution to the debate is found in the research coordinated by Church World Service and Gurises Unidos (2013) on the social, economic and affective impacts of this problematic in the region. Inspired by this initiative, in Brazil we conducted an investigation - supported by the Articulation of Movements of the Rights of Children and Adolescents- in the 36 children and adolescents participated with relatives deprived of their liberty for different crimes (Galdeano et al., 2018). Because it is not a representative sample, the results obtained are not generalizable to the total population of NNAPES. However, our findings indicate that the family and community life in poor territories is strongly crossed by the Imprisonment phenomenon. Especially, we find that the reality of prisons precedes the moment of incarceration, since among the children interviewed, seven (19.4%) witnessed the detention of their relatives, six (16.6%) observed beatings by the police and one witnessed the exchange of gunfire. These situations clearly reveal the forms of frightening, humiliating and shameful treatment that children receive from the State during the detention of their relatives, all of which contravenes the provisions of the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent (Brazil, 1990: Article 18). Likewise, we observe that the imprisonment of adolescents and adults is an experience common among neighbors, friends and acquaintances of the children interviewed (14 of them (38.8%) reported having adolescent friends deprived of freedom in the socio-educational system). Details: Church World Service, 2018. 45p. Source: Internet Resource; Accessed May 16, 2019 at: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/en Year: 2019 Country: Brazil URL: Shelf Number: 155870 Keywords: Children of InmatesFamilies of PrisonersRights of Children |
Author: Torres Quintero, Astrid Title: Colombia - Ninos y ninas con madres y padres encarcelados por delitos de drogas menores no violentos ( 103/5000 Colombia - Children with mothers and fathers imprisoned for minor non-violent drug offenses) Summary: In Colombia, there are currently 115,862 people deprived of their liberty, despite the fact that The capacity of the institutions of confinement is for 79,211 (INPEC, 2018). This situation of overcrowding generates multiple violations of human rights, recognized by the Court Constitutional, that declared an "unconstitutional state of affairs" in prison matters, is say, a serious and massive situation of violation of rights for the private population of the freedom, derived from multiple factors and that, for its improvement, requires actions of all the competent institutions (Constitutional Court of Colombia, 2013 and 2015). However, the recognition of the serious situation suffered by people who are in seclusion does not imply the visibility of other subjects who suffer the impacts of imprisonment, as are families and, especially, children and adolescents (NNA, from now on) whose parents are deprived of freedom, for which reason they are out of focus of attention for making decisions both in terms of prison policy, and in the field of policies aimed at protecting the rights of children and adolescents. In the case of non-violent drug-related crimes, despite the fact that there has been debate over the impact of criminal treatment mainly on the people who carry out the traffic and sale of psychoactive substances, because of the vulnerability that characterizes them, little has been said about their family contexts and the effects they may suffer as a consequence of imprisonment. This invisibility is serious in the Colombian context, where the drug trafficking has especially impacted on family and community relations, not only as a consequence of this activity in itself, but also because of the effect that the hardening of sentences and the premise that they should focus on the use of prison. Therefore, although the vulnerability of persons deprived of their liberty is recognized and, in As a consequence, penal and penitentiary policies are questioned (for example, in terms of use of preventive detention and toughening of sentences in some crimes), these questions do not include analyzes related to the affectations suffered by children and adolescents as a result of the imprisonment of their parents. Several studies allow us to conclude that the populations that suffer the most the consequences of this criminal hardening are those that are in conditions of vulnerability, as women, who usually participate in the stages of transport and sale. However, these investigations do not delve into the effects that deprivation of liberty has on children and adolescents, with the exception of some mentions that are reached as a consequence of the observation of the situation of women who are mothers and are imprisoned. Details: Church World Service, 2018. 52p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 16, 2019 at: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/docs/PDD-Colombia.pdf Year: 2019 Country: Colombia URL: http://www.cwslac.org/nnapes-pdd/docs/PDD-Colombia.pdf Shelf Number: 155873 Keywords: Children of InmatesDrug OffendersDrug TraffickingFamilies of PrisonersHuman Rights AbusesPrison PolicyRights of Children |