The Impact of Incarceration on Family Formation: The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study

监禁对家庭形成的影响：脆弱家庭与儿童福祉研究

• 批准号: 0004336
• 负责人: Bruce Western
• 金额: $ 34万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0004336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impact; Incarceration; Family; Formation; Fragile

SES-0004336WesternThis study examines the impact of incarceration on the family relationships of disadvantaged parents. Although the penal population now totals around 1.9 million inmates and an estimated 1.5 million children have a parent currently in custody, no national survey data are available to study the effects of incarceration on families and children. Under the auspices of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the investigators will complete a new data collection to examine the effects of incarceration. The Fragile Families survey is a national panel study of new parents that collects rich data on patterns of family formation, child wellbeing, and parental resources. The first follow-up survey - in the field in most sites until summer 2001 - includes a criminal justice module that obtains a detailed incarceration history from male and female respondents. Funds will support an update of this information in the third and fourth waves of the survey. In addition, the investigators will administer special modules for employment history, reasoning ability, and impulsivity. These modules are intended to measure stable propensities to criminal behavior that will help control for the nonrandom selection of offenders into the penal system. Data will be analyzed to examine the effects of incarceration on men's employment and earnings, and the direct effect of incarceration on family formation. It is hypothesized that incarceration negatively influences men's employment opportunities making ex-inmates unattractive partners for marriage or cohabitation. Regardless of their economic status, the stigma of incarceration signals unreliability, further diminishing the marriage prospects of men with prison records. While the study focuses on the link between incarceration and family formation, the data will be of broad interest to researchers interested in the economic position of criminal offenders, their mental health, involvement in parenting, propensity to violence or abuse and a wide range of other topics.

SES-0004336Westernthis研究研究了监禁对处境不利的父母家庭关系的影响。尽管刑事人口现在总计约190万囚犯和估计有150万儿童有父母目前正在拘留中，但没有国家调查数据可用于研究监禁对家庭和儿童的影响。在脆弱的家庭和儿童健康研究的主持下，研究人员将完成一个新的数据收集，以检查监禁的影响。脆弱的家庭调查是一项针对新父母的国家小组研究，该研究收集了有关家庭形成，儿童健康和父母资源模式的丰富数据。在2001年夏季之前，在大多数现场的首次后续调查包括一个刑事司法模块，该模块从男性和女性受访者那里获得了详细的监禁历史。 资金将在调查的第三和第四波中支持此信息的更新。此外，研究人员将管理特殊的模块，以实现就业历史，推理能力和冲动。这些模块旨在衡量对犯罪行为的稳定倾向，这将有助于控制犯罪者在刑事系统中选择非随机的选择。 将分析数据以检查监禁对男性就业和收入的影响，以及监禁对家庭形成的直接影响。 假设监禁会对男性的就业机会产生负面影响，这使前侵袭者没有吸引人的婚姻或同居。无论其经济地位如何，监禁的污名都信号信号不可靠，从而进一步降低了监狱记录的男性的婚姻前景。尽管该研究重点是监禁与家庭形成之间的联系，但对对犯罪罪犯的经济地位，他们的心理健康，参与育儿，暴力或虐待的倾向以及其他广泛主题感兴趣的研究人员将广泛关注数据。