Defina Robert H. Hannon Lance. "The Impact of Adult Incarceration on Child Poverty: A County-Level Analysis, 1995- 2007." The Prison Journal.09 (2010): 377-396. Online.
. The article was about how in some cases, “incarcerating vast numbers of people from a restricted number of communities can create adverse social dynamics within the affected neighborhoods that can actually foster more crime”. By saying this, they mean that sometimes imprisoning high numbers of people, can cause more ex convicts to re-commit crimes. Also they say that because of this, it causes more children of adults who are incarcerated, are more likely to be living in poverty, because they don’t have the full support from their parent or parents. It also is due to many other factors like not enough jobs, and it also causes families to fall apart. Because of this, it then causes juveniles of these parents, to become more prone to be a criminal, because of the hard ships they are dealing with. Overall they talk about a never ending cycle of the negative things that come out of incarcerating at high numbers. I believe i could use this in my paper, to help better understand the difference between children with good parents, and children with parents in prison. Also it could help better understand the lives of prisoners and how they get by.
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