Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138183229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-19 |
| 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 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 walks of life on tv as I was telling Megan, I can not thank them enough for making this bo. An important book. The Missing Ramone 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.
- Barbara E. This is a must-read for all those looking to improve outcomes for the children of incarcerated parents. 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. Bloom, Sonoma State University . 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
A valuable resource for students in corrections, human services, social work, counseling, and related courses, as well as practitioners, program/agency administrators, policymakers, advocates, and others involved with families of the incarcerated, this book is testimony that the consequences of mass incarceration reach far beyond just the offender.. 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. Megan Sullivan, a scholar in the Humanities, examines the effects of her father’s incarceration on her fam
A child development specialist, she has developed and directed educational, therapeutic, family support, and advocacy services for more than 25,000 families of justice-involved parents since 1988. Dr. Her essay "My Father’s Prison" was awarded the Anthony Prize in Prose from Between the Lines Literary Journa