Children of the Prison Boom - Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality

Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Wakefield and Wildeman find that parental imprisonment leads to increased mental health and behavioral problems, infant mortality, and child homelessness which translate into large-scale increases in racial inequality.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• 1. Introduction


• 2. The Social Patterning of Parental Imprisonment


• 3. Before and After Imprisonment


• 4. Paternal Incarceration and Mental Health and Behavioral Problems


• 5. Paternal Incarceration and Infant Mortality


• 6. Parental Incarceration and Child Homelessness


• 7. Mass Imprisonment and Childhood Inequality


• 8. Conclusion


• Methodological Appendix


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Sara Wakefield is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
Christopher Wildeman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Summary

Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Wakefield and Wildeman find that parental imprisonment leads to increased mental health and behavioral problems, infant mortality, and child homelessness which translate into large-scale increases in racial inequality.

Additional text

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Product details

• Authors: Sara Wakefield, Sara (Assistant Professor Wakefield, Sara Wildeman Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman, Christopher (Associate Professor Wildeman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2014
• EAN: 9780199989225
• ISBN: 978-0-19-998922-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Po
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology