Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (985 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138183229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brilliant, riveting I just finished reading Parental Incarceration:Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact, written by my amazingly talented friend Meg Sullivan. Brilliant, riveting, and insightful, it explores the long term effects of incarceration on the prisoners and their children. A must read for those interested in what we can do as a nation to decrease the rate of recidivism and break the cycle of multi-generational incarceration.. "Danielle-his children's conviction" according to Dani girl. My name is Danielle Chapman from Cali, I am one of the contributors to the essays in the book, I can't express how amazing this book is and how it's helped me realize that I am not the only one on the world who grew up without a parent! And best of all it has shown me that there is life after growing up with your parent in prison. I hope one day we will hear of a program where we can all meet and tell our stories and different wal. An important book. Our nation's incarceration rate is out of control, and we often forget how this epidemic affects the children of the incarcerated. The essays in this book are at times revealing, informative, heartbreaking and inspirational. Sometimes all of the above.
Denise Johnston is the director of Families & Criminal Justice, the successor agency to the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. She co-edited "Children of Incarcerated Parents" for S&F Online. She is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and serves as the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning.. Johnston has authored numerous publicati
Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental incarceration. Denise Johnston examines her own children’s experience of her incarceration within the context of what the research and her 30 years of practice with prisoners and their children has taught her, arguing that it is imperative to attempt to understand parental incarceration within a developmental framework. This work goes beyond that to examine the developmental impact of children’s experiences that extend long beyond that timeframe. The impact of the experience of parental incarceration has garnered attention by researchers, but to date attention has been focused on the period when parents are actually in jail or prison. As the majority of these incarcerated persons are parents, the number of minor children with an incarcerated parent has increased alongside, peaking at an estimated 2.9 million in 2006. Megan Sullivan, a scholar in the Humanities, examines the effects of
This is a must-read for all those looking to improve outcomes for the children of incarcerated parents. Bloom, Sonoma State University . Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact fills a major gap in the research in that it is the first text of its kind to explore the impact of parental incarceration on children within a developmental framework. It enhances the literature and provides an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to better understand and garner unique insights into the lived experiences of adult women and men whose stories of parental involvement in the criminal justice system have often been ignored in studies of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration. - Barbara E