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

Zusatztext This is an important book. It does a remarkable service for academics, policy makers, and practitioners by powerfully identifying in three data sets the casual effects of the incarceration of fathers and children. Informationen zum Autor Sara Wakefield is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Christopher Wildeman is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University Klappentext Drawing upon broadly representative survey data and qualitative interviews, Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Zusammenfassung Drawing upon broadly representative survey data and qualitative interviews, Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Sara Wakefield, Sara Wildeman Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2016
• EAN: 9780190624590
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062459-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Po
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology