The unprecedented growth of the penal system in the United States has motivated an
expansive volume of research on the collateral consequences of punishment. In this review …

In the decade that followed since the original clinical report on the father's role was
published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in May 2004, 1 there has been a surge of …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

An unrelenting prison boom, marked by stark racial disparities, pulled a disproportionate
number of young black men into prison in the last forty years. In Children of the Prison Boom …

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

Stress proliferation theory suggests that parental incarceration may have deleterious
intergenerational health consequences. In this study, I use data from the 2011–2012 …

A half century ago, relatively few US children experienced the incarceration of a parent. In
the decades since, incarceration rates rose rapidly (before leveling off more recently), and …

Parental incarceration is a socially relevant topic with substantial implications for children,
yet it is understudied by child development scholars. About 2.6 million US children currently …

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

Mass incarceration has profoundly restructured the life courses of not only marginalized
adult men for whom this event is now so prevalent but also their families. We examined …