The effects of maternal incarceration on adolescent children

Trice, Ashton D.; Brewster, JoAnne

doi:10.1007/bf02802572

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“…These mirrored reported impacts from other research, including mental and physical health problems (Hissel et al 2011;Bocknek et al 2009;Murray and Farrington, 2008), difficulties related to education (Trice and Brewster, 2004;Dallaire et al 2010;Roberts 2012) and stigmatisation by others (Pugh and Lansky 2011). More children were reported as having negative impacts by parents than self-identified as such.…”

Section: Results: Emotional and Mental Health Impactssupporting

confidence: 60%

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Children of Prisoners: Their Situation and Role in Long-Term Crime Prevention

Robertson¹,

Christmann

Sharratt

et al. 2016

Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

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Studies suggest that maintaining family ties can help reduce the likelihood of reoffending, and that while parental imprisonment can increase a child's likelihood to offend, positive responses to the situation can aid the children's well-being, attitude and attainment.Drawing on findings from the recently completed EU-funded COPING Project on the mental health of children of prisoners, this chapter explores the factors that aid a child's ability to cope with parental imprisonment and the actions that different stakeholders can take to support them. It identifies some of the mental health impacts at different stages of parental imprisonment, the roles played by non-imprisoned parents/carers and by schools, and suggests options for further clarifying the factors that help and hinder children of prisoners in the short and long term.

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Section: Results: Emotional and Mental Health Impactssupporting

confidence: 60%

“…This concern is not unfounded; teachers for example, have been found to hold less favourable expectations of children with a parent in prison (Trice and Brewster, 2004;Dallaire et al 2010). This is unfortunate, since families have an existing relationship with schools, making them a key site of support.…”

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Children of Prisoners: Their Situation and Role in Long-Term Crime Prevention

Robertson¹,

Christmann

Sharratt

et al. 2016

Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

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“…Yet relatively little is known about how expanded incarceration-which increasingly includes parents-influences the educational outcomes of children (Cho 2009;Foster andHagan 2007, 2009;Friedman and Esselstyn 1965;Stanton 1980;Trice and Brewster 2004). We argue that the intergenerational connection of parental incarceration to the educational outcomes of children is an underrecognized interinstitutional process linking prisons to schools in America.…”

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Intergenerational Educational Effects of Mass Imprisonment in America

2012

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In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their child's primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and concentration of the mass imprisonment of fathers is associated with their own children's intergenerational educational outcomes and ''spills over'' into the attainments of other students. We assess the association of this interinstitutional and intergenerational ''prison through school pathway'' with downward and blocked educational achievement. Educational and economic resources and other predisposing variables partially explain school-linked effects of paternal imprisonment on measures of children's educational outcomes. However, we find that the net negative school-level association of paternal imprisonment with educational outcomes persists even after we introduce school-and individual-level measures of a wide range of mediating processes and extraneous control variables. We discuss paternal imprisonment as a form of ''marked absence.'' The significance of elevated levels of paternal imprisonment in schools is perhaps most apparent in its negative association with college completion, the educational divide that now most dramatically disadvantages individuals and groups in American society.

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“…These studies use information on imprisoned parents" and show that educational outcomes of children with imprisoned parents are significantly lower (Parke and Clarke-Stewart 2002;Murray and Farrington 2008;Gordon 2009;Neal 2009;Sarri et al 2011). Other studies focus specifically on imprisoned mothers (Stanton 1980;Trice and Brewster 2004;Sharp 2008) or imprisoned fathers Hagan 2007, 2009) and find similar results. Typical control groups that are used for identification purposes are children who are separated from their parents for other reasons than imprisonment, such as hospitalization, parental death or divorce (e.g.…”

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“…Typical control groups that are used for identification purposes are children who are separated from their parents for other reasons than imprisonment, such as hospitalization, parental death or divorce (e.g. Murray and Farrington 2008;Neal 2009), children of mothers on probation (Stanton 1980) and best friends of children whose parents are imprisoned (Trice and Brewster 2004).…”

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The externalities of crime: The effect of criminal involvement of parents on the educational attainment of their children

Rud

Klaveren

Groot

et al. 2014

Economics of Education Review

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The empirical literature on education and crime suggests that both criminal behavior and educational attainment are transferred from parents to children. However, the impact of criminal involvement of parents on educational outcomes of children tends to be ignored, even though the entailed social costs may be substantial. This study examines the effects of parents" criminal involvement on the educational attainment of their children. A multinomial probit model is applied in combination with a Mahalanobis matching approach to identify this effect. The findings suggest that having criminally involved parents: (1) increases the probability of only finishing primary education by 8 percentage points, and (2) decreases the probability of having a higher education degree by 13 percentage points.JEL Codes: I21, J13, J24, K14

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The effects of maternal incarceration on adolescent children

Cited by 136 publications

References 14 publications

Children of Prisoners: Their Situation and Role in Long-Term Crime Prevention

Children of Prisoners: Their Situation and Role in Long-Term Crime Prevention

Intergenerational Educational Effects of Mass Imprisonment in America

The externalities of crime: The effect of criminal involvement of parents on the educational attainment of their children

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