Linking parental incarceration and family dynamics associated with intergenerational transmission: A life-course perspective.

ABSTRACT: Children experiencing parental incarceration face numerous additional disadvantages, but researchers have often relied on these other co-occurring factors primarily as controls. In this article, we focus on the intimate links between crime and incarceration, as well as on the broader family context within which parental incarceration often unfolds. Thus, parents' drug use and criminal behavior that precedes and may follow incarceration periods may be ongoing stressors that directly affect child well-being. We also use our analyses to foreground mechanisms associated with social learning theories, including observations and communications that increase the child's risk for criminal involvement and other problem outcomes. These related family experiences often channel the child's own develop

SUBMITTER: Giordano PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8021139 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature