CJ 3302 Lecture 1: Prisons-Incarcerate Women and Drugs + Race
20 Oct 2016
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Over 5 million children have had an incarcerated parent on at least 1 point in their life. Only included residential parents (those living in the home at time of arrest) 7% of us children; 2. 7 million children had a parents in us jail/prisons. Went from 500,000 children in 1980, to 1. 7 million in 2007. What may have caused the 1 million dollar jump b/t 2007 and 2010? (policy changes, enforcement changes, social changes, intergenerational cycles) 1 in 14 of us children shared a home with a parent who was incarcerated at some time after the child"s birth. Experience initials incarceration of their parent before 9 years old. Poor children 3x as likely and children of undereducated parents are. Parental divorce (even higher than in the gen pop) Witness violence (parents or guardians and in neighborhood) Lived with someone with a mental illness or who was suicidal. Strengthening ties between incarcerated parents and their children (especially fathers)
