Child support enforcement is among several contexts in which work requirements are
enforced by incarceration for noncompliance. Rather than creating barriers to employment …

Incarceration among young, minority, economically disadvantaged men is pervasive in the
United States and can impair their employment prospects. Because many of these men are …

Criminal justice policies have resulted in millions of Americans being incarcerated over the
past three decades in systems that provide little or no rehabilitation. This study uses a new …

Parental arrest and incarceration represents a profound and traumatic experience for almost
3 million children in the US and scholars in sociology and criminology consistently nd …

At the close of 2010, 1.6 million individuals were incarcerated in state and federal
correctional institutions (Guerino, Harrison & Sabol, 2011). Although there is no centralized …

High US incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of
imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and family relationships. Given the high rates …

The rise in mass incarceration, as well as its unequal distribution across the population, may
widen inequalities among individuals and families. In this manuscript, I use data from the …

As scholars and practitioners alike have drawn attention to negative effects of incarceration,
researchers have increasingly considered that one of the most important collateral …

Research Summary We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N=
3,197) to consider the heterogeneous effects of maternal incarceration on 9‐year‐old …

Wakefield and Wildeman (2011, this issue) have presented us with the next step in a
growing body of research that demonstrates the widespread and long-term human costs of …