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让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)审查关于父母监禁和儿童福祉的现有知识，包括关于监禁效果差异的理论和经验难题；(2)记录旨在减少父母监禁对儿童的负面影响的方案；(3)解决父母参与司法系统所产生的问题；(4)确定在理论上知情、有经验的最佳做法，以改善被监禁父母的子女的生活。首要目标是为减轻一代受影响儿童的成本的努力提供信息。研讨会将汇集专业学科和政策部门的学者和政策制定者。参与者将从正在崛起的研究人员到高级专业人员，这些专业人员是根据他们的专业知识和能力从全国各地挑选出来的，他们与包括种族和少数民族以及妇女在内的代表性不足的群体接触。还将邀请一批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的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。该讲习班的一项关键成果将是确定父母监禁的过程和结果，并特别关注弱势儿童群体。研讨会将产生一份详细说明调查结果和建议的报告。研讨会的POWER POINT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页面广泛提供。

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.