@article{1479472,
      recid = {1479472},
      author = {Arditti, Joyce A., },
      title = {Parental Incarceration and the Family : Psychological and  Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and  Caregivers /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Over 2% of U.S.children under the age of 18-more than  1,700,000 children-have a parent in prison. These children  experience very real disadvantages when compared to their  peers: they tend to experience lower levels of educational  success, social exclusion, and even a higher likelihood of  their own future incarceration. Meanwhile, their new  caregivers have to adjust to their new responsibilities as  their lives change overnight, and the incarcerated parents  are cut off from their children's development.Parental  Incarceration and the Family brings a family perspective to  our understanding of what it means to have so many of our  nation's parents in prison. Drawing from the field's most  recent research and the author's own fieldwork, Joyce  Arditti offers an in-depth look at how incarceration  affects entire families: offender parents, children, and  care-givers. Through the use of exemplars, anecdotes, and  reflections, Joyce Arditti puts a human face on the mass of  humanity behind bars, as well as those family members who  are affected by a parent's imprisonment. In focusing on  offenders as parents, a radically different social policy  agenda emerges-one that calls for real reform and that  responds to the collective vulnerabilities of the  incarcerated and their kin.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479472},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814705131.001.0001},
}