Children on the Outside: Voicing the Pain and Human Costs of Parental Incarceration
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 11, 2011
ANNOTATION: Observations of and recommendations based “largely in the words of the most directly affected, the children” are presented. Anyone involved in providing services to juveniles should read this report. “It is by tackling the psychological and emotional trauma head-on that we not only aid these children to grow into our future mothers, fathers, taxpayers and workers, but also ensure more stable and thriving communities” (p. i). Sections following an executive summary are: introduction; voicing the pain and human costs of parental incarceration—relevant criminological frameworks, costs to the child’s sense of stability and safety, economic security, sense of connectedness and worthiness, attachments and ability to trust, sense of having a place in the world, and costs to the child’s community; recommendations—Alabama and whose best interest in “get tough” policies and New York and downsizing prisons through drug reform; and conclusion.
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