From Crime and Justice Research Center:
Criminal legal system contact has emerged as a key event for understanding family life, childhood well-being, and patterns of inequality. Scholars have found many problems for families that are linked to mass criminalization and effects tend to be concentrated among the most marginalized segments of society. But few studies have considered the consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for families.
In a new study that unites research on mass criminalization and family life with broader perspectives on sibling influence, researchers examined the relation between a sibling’s criminal legal system contact and changes in the material conditions, social support, and well-being of caregivers and other children in the family. The study found that a sibling’s criminal legal system contact can disrupt home life for siblings and families significantly.
Conducted by researchers at Rutgers University, Duke University, and the ROCKWOOL Foundation, the study is published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
“Most research on familial criminal legal system contact in the United States has considered how partners’ or parents’ incarceration influences families,” says Sara Wakefield, associate professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice, who led the study. Wakefield is an expert whose work is promoted by the NCJA Crime and Justice Research Alliance, which is funded by the National Criminal Justice Association. Continue reading >>>
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