Incarceration in Fragile Families
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
May. 15, 2012
ANNOTATION: The effects of mass imprisonment on fragile families - families in which the children’s parents were not married at the time of their birth – and ways to lessen these effects’ impacts while also reducing crime are examined. Topics discussed include: the demography of punishment and mass incarceration in the United States; research findings on the consequences of imprisonment for fragile families—effects on adult men, partners, and children; implications of the research; and policy prescriptions. “The primary sources of order and stability—public safety in its wide sense—are the informal social controls of family and work. Thus, broad social policies hold the promise not only of improving the well-being of fragile families, but also, by strengthening families and providing jobs, of contributing to public safety” (p. 157).
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