Unprecedented numbers of children experience parental incarceration worldwide. Families
and children of prisoners can experience multiple difficulties after parental incarceration …

OBJECTIVES: This article reviews the evidence on the adverse health consequences of low
socioeconomic status, homelessness, and incarceration among drug users …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against Black people have occurred across a
number of American cities under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.” We develop a new …

Over 2% of US 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 …

Radical changes in crime control and sentencing policies led to an unprecedented buildup
of the United States prison population over the last thirty years.! By the end of 2002, the …

The expansion of the US penal system has important consequences for poverty and
inequality, yet little is known about the imposition of monetary sanctions. This study analyzes …

While policy makers have long extolled the benefits of incarceration, criminologists have
expended considerable effort demonstrating the harmful collateral consequences of …

The number of children experiencing parental imprisonment is increasing in Western
industrialized countries. Parental imprisonment is a risk factor for child antisocial behavior …