Incarcerated Parents and Their Children. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report.

By Christopher J. Mumola. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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The correctional melting pot: Race, ethnicity, citizenship, and prison violence (2006, background): “For instance, Black children are nine times and Hispanic children three times more likely than White children to have a parent in prison (Mumola, 2000).”
The Association Between Parental Incarceration and Health, Education, and Economic Outcomes in Young Adulthood (2015, neutral): “Demographics Due to significant variation in rates of incarceration by race in the U.S. (see Mumola 2000 and Wildeman 2010), we use two measures to control for race and ethnicity in the current study.”
The Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Maternal Neglect and Harsh Parenting (2014, background): “Because most inmates are in romantic relationships and the majority have children (Mumola 2000), incarceration may have unintended and far-reaching spillover effects on family life.”
Mass Incarceration, Family Complexity, and the Reproduction of Childhood Disadvantage (2014, background): “Research shows that almost half of all youths in the correctional system have a parent in the adult system (Mumola 2000), and the likelihood of incarceration is five to six times greater among children with a parent in prison than children of never-incarcerated parents (Springer, Lynch, and Rubin…”
Variables Affecting Successful Reintegration as Perceived by Offenders and Professionals (2004, background): “Mumola (2000) reported on a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey in 1999 that revealed that approximately 721,500 parents were incarcerated.”
Inmate Misconduct: A Test of the Deprivation, Importation, and Situational Models (2002, background): “We do know that fathers have less contact with their children than do mothers either through phone calls, letters, or visits (Mumola, 2000).”
Gender Differences and Offender Reentry: A Review of the Literature (2009, background): “%) male and female state and federal U.S. prisoners were parents of minor children compared to 57% in 1991 (Mumola, 2000); and 6% of jailed and 5% of state prisoners were pregnant (Greenfeld & Snell, 1999).”
Social isolation and inmate behavior: A conceptual framework for theorizing prison visitation and guiding and assessing research (2013, background): “A Bureau of Justice Statistics report by Mumola (2000) found that inmates in state and federal prisons are on average housed in facilities more than 100 miles away from their previous residences.”
Parenting Stress, Alliance, Child Contact, and Adjustment of Imprisoned Mothers and Fathers (2009, background): “Prior to incarceration, mothers are more likely be their child’s sole caretaker and to have daily interactions with children (Glaze & Maruschak, 2008; Mumola, 2000).”
Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States1 (2010, background): “In the United States more than 1.5 million children under age 18 have a parent in prison (Mumola 2000).”
California State Prisoners With Children: Findings From the 1997 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (2003, background): “Growth in the number of incarcerated women has particular implications for children, because women are much more likely than men to have children and to have been caring for them prior to their arrest (Mumola 2000).”
The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children (2008, methodology): “In the United States, parental imprisonment is more prevalent among African Americans (49 percent of parents in state prisons and 44 percent of parents in federal prisons were black in 1997; Mumola 2000).”