Workshop: Parental Incarceration in the United States: Bringing Together Research and Policy to Reduce Collateral Costs to Children

研讨会：美国的父母监禁：结合研究和政策来减少儿童的附带成本

• 批准号: 1343925
• 负责人: John Hagan
• 金额: $ 4.92万
• 依托单位: American Bar Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Parental; Incarceration; United; States

A one day workshop will engage researchers and policy makers about collateral consequences of parental incarceration for U.S. children. The U.S. is a leader internationally in incarceration levels and the majority of incarcerated adults are parents. This workshop will: (1) review current knowledge about parental imprisonment and child well-being, including theoretical and empirical puzzles concerning variance in effects of incarceration; (2) document programs designed to reduce negative effects of parental incarceration on children; (3) address problems stemming from parental involvement with the justice system; and (4) identify theoretically informed, empirically groundedbest practices for improving the lives of children of incarcerated parents. The overarching goal is to inform efforts to mitigate costs to a generation of affected children. The workshop will bring together scholars and policy makers across professional disciplines and policy sectors. The participants will range from rising researchers to senior professionals selected from across the nation based on their expertise and ability to engage underrepresented groups including racial and ethnic minorities and women. A similarly diverse array of postdoctoral and graduate student observers will be invited to advance the training of the next generation of contributors to this area of work. These participants will extend networks urgently needed between policy makers, practitioners, and academics and will thereby expand policy and program coverage. A key output of this workshop will be the identification of processes and outcomes of parental incarceration, with particular attention to vulnerable groups of children. The workshop will result in a report detailing findings and recommendations. Power point slides and papers from the workshop will be made broadly available through a page devoted to the conference on the website of the American Bar Foundation.

一个为期一天的研讨会将邀请研究人员和政策制定者讨论父母监禁对美国儿童的附带后果。美国在监禁水平方面处于国际领先地位，大多数被监禁的成年人都是父母。 该讲习班将：（1）审查有关父母监禁和儿童福祉的现有知识，包括有关监禁影响差异的理论和经验难题;（2）旨在减少父母监禁对儿童的负面影响的文件计划;（3）解决父母参与司法系统产生的问题;以及（4）确定理论上知情的，经验上证实的最佳做法，以改善被监禁父母的子女的生活。 总体目标是为减轻一代受影响儿童的代价的努力提供信息。讲习班将汇集各专业学科和政策部门的学者和决策者。 参与者将从新兴的研究人员到从全国各地挑选的高级专业人员，他们的专业知识和能力使少数民族和妇女等代表性不足的群体参与进来。 将邀请一批同样不同的博士后和研究生观察员，以促进对这一工作领域下一代贡献者的培训。 这些参与者将扩大政策制定者，从业者和学者之间迫切需要的网络，从而扩大政策和计划的覆盖面。该讲习班的一项主要成果将是确定父母被监禁的过程和结果，特别关注弱势儿童群体。 讲习班将产生一份报告，详细说明调查结果和建议。 讲习班的幻灯片和论文将通过美国律师基金会网站上专门介绍会议的网页广泛提供。