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Children of the prison boom : mass incarceration and the future of American inequality / Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakefield, Sara.
- Series:
- Studies in Crime and Public Policy
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
- Children of prisoners.
- Corrections--Social aspects--United States.
- Corrections.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 behavioural problems, infant mortality, and child homelessness which translate into large-scale increases in racial inequality.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The social patterning of parental imprisonment
- Before and after imprisonment
- Paternal incarceration and mental health and behavioral problems
- Paternal incarceration and infant mortality
- Parental incarceration and child homelessness
- Mass imprisonment and childhood inequality
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-062459-0
- 0-19-998924-9
- 1-306-08235-8
- 0-19-998923-0
- OCLC:
- 868975148
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