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Children of the prison boom : mass incarceration and the future of American inequality /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wakefield, Sara
Other Authors: Wildeman, Christopher James, 1979-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
Subjects:
Children of prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Corrections > Social aspects > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
Equality > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The social patterning of parental imprisonment
  • Before and after imprisonment
  • Paternal incarceration and mental health and behavioral problems
  • Paternal incarceration and infant mortality
  • Parental incarceration and child homelessness
  • Mass imprisonment and childhood inequality
  • Conclusion.