How Much Might Mass Imprisonment Affect Childhood Inequality?

This chapter first briefly introduces readers of some arguments made in an earlier work, Children of the Prison Boom (2013). This book made three core arguments, the first of which was that 25 per cent of recent birth cohorts of African-American children could expect to experience the imprisonment of a father. In addition, the book outlined a host of theoretical mechanisms through which paternal incarceration could affect child wellbeing. Finally, Children of the Prison Boom generates estimates of how mass imprisonment might have affected Black-White inequality in childhood wellbeing in the United States. The chapter then broadens these arguments beyond the narrow confines of the United States and the Black-White dichotomy.

Affect (linguistics) · Criminology · Imprisonment · Inequality · Mass incarceration · Prison · Sociology · White (mutation) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology

• “CPS Sucks, but… I think I’m better off in the system

  Open Access•Gabriel T Cesar, Scott H Decker•Children and Youth Services Review•2020

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