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.

为期一天的研讨会将让研究人员和政策制定者参与讨论父母监禁对美国儿童的附带后果。美国的监禁水平在国际上处于领先地位，大多数被监禁的成年人都是父母。 本次研讨会将：（1）回顾当前有关父母监禁和儿童福祉的知识，包括有关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负面影响的计划； (3) 解决因家长参与司法系统而产生的问题； (4) 确定有理论依据、有实证依据的最佳实践，以改善父母被监禁的孩子的生活。 总体目标是为减轻一代受影响儿童的成本提供信息。该研讨会将汇集专业学科和政策部门的学者和政策制定者。 参与者包括新晋研究人员和高级专业人士，他们是根据他们的专业知识和能力，从全国各地挑选出来的，以吸引少数族裔和妇女等代表性不足的群体。 将邀请同样多样化的博士后和研究生观察员来推进该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，从而扩大政策和项目的覆盖范围。本次研讨会的一个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。 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。