The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a
special focus on the past decade. They consider the following several topics:(a) marriage …

In this Series paper, we examine how mass incarceration shapes inequality in health. The
USA is the world leader in incarceration, which disproportionately affects black populations …

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state
prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In …

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 …

The historic increase in US incarceration rates made the transition from prison to community
common for poor, prime-age men and women. Leaving prison presents the challenge of …

The expansion of the penal system has been one of the most dramatic trends in
contemporary American society. A wealth of research has examined the impact of …

The dramatic expansion of the US penal system during the past 4 decades has led to an
increase in adverse health conditions that affect an unprecedented number of individuals …

Online dating sites frequently claim that they have fundamentally altered the dating
landscape for the better. This article employs psychological science to examine (a) whether …

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 …

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