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Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents

Implications for Policy and Intervention

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Editors:
  1. Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

    1. Human Development & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

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  • Examines potential outcomes of parent-child contact during incarceration, including effects on child and adult relationships, well-being, and parenting
  • Addresses such corrections-related issues as institutional behavior and recidivism
  • Focuses on parent-child contact in both jail and prison settings in the United States
  • Discusses ways in which researchers can contribute toward making effective policy recommendations?

Part of the book series: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice (ACFPP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction and Literature Review: Is Parent–Child Contact During Parental Incarceration Beneficial?

    • Rebecca J. Shlafer, Ann Booker Loper, Leah Schillmoeller
    Pages 1-21

  3. Differential Effects of Type of Children’s Contact with Their Jailed Mothers and Children’s Behavior Problems

    • Danielle Dallaire, Janice Zeman, Todd Thrash
    Pages 23-38

  4. Young Children’s Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Plexiglas and Video Visits with Jailed Parents

    • Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Hilary Runion, Cynthia Burnson, Sarah Maleck, Lindsay Weymouth, Kierra Pettit et al.
    Pages 39-58

  5. Associations Among Mother–Child Contact, Parenting Stress, and Mother and Child Adjustment Related to Incarceration

    • Heather H. McClure, Joann Wu Shortt, J. Mark Eddy, Alice Holmes, Stan Van Uum, Evan Russell et al.
    Pages 59-82

  6. Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents: Summary and Recommendations

    • Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
    Pages 83-92

  7. Policy Commentary: The Research Evidence Policymakers Need to Build Better Public Policy for Children of Incarcerated Parents

    • Karen Bogenschneider
    Pages 93-113

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 115-115
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​This Brief explores the potential effects of parent-child contact during incarceration on child and adult relationships, well-being, and parenting as well as corrections-related issues, such as institutional behavior and recidivism. It presents a literature review on what is currently known about parent-child contact during parental incarceration in addition to several empirical studies, followed by a summary, commentary, and briefing report. The empirical studies focus on contact in both jail and prison settings. Because jails in the United States handle more admissions per year than prisons – and studies of jailed parents and their children are not common in the literature – two of the three studies presented focus on jails. Following the empirical studies, a summary that includes recommendations for policy and intervention is presented, along with a commentary that explores what researchers need to do to make effective policy recommendations. This Brief is an essential resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Human Development & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

About the editor

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Human Development and Family Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being at the University of Wisconsin; an investigator at the Waisman Center, an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty; and a licensed psychologist. Through numerous publications and outreach efforts, she has brought the attention of the child development and family studies communities to the issue of parental incarceration. Her research with children of incarcerated parents has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Poehlmann-Tynan has served as an advisor to Sesame Street to help develop and evaluate their Emmy-nominated initiative for young children with incarcerated parents and their families called Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration.

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