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

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。美国是世界上监禁水平最高的国家，大多数被监禁的成年人都是父母。本次研讨会将：(1)回顾目前关于父母监禁和儿童福祉的知识，包括关于监禁影响差异的理论和实证难题；(2)记录旨在减少父母监禁对儿童的负面影响的项目；(3)解决因父母参与司法系统而产生的问题；(4)确定有理论依据、有经验依据的最佳实践，以改善父母被监禁的孩子的生活。总体目标是为减轻受影响的一代儿童的成本所作的努力提供信息。研讨会将汇集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吸引了包括种族和少数民族以及妇女在内的代表性不足的群体。将邀请同样多样化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。这些参与者将扩展决策者、从业者和学者之间迫切需要的网络，从而扩大政策和项目的覆盖面。本次讲习班的一项重要产出将是确定父母监禁的过程和结果，特别关注弱势儿童群体。讲习班将产生一份详细说明调查结果和建议的报告。研讨会的幻灯片和论文将通过美国律师基金会网站上的会议专页广泛提供。

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.