write a two-page (double-spaced) response paper that answers the following questions:
(1) How did the film make you feel? What surprised you? Or what didn’t surprise you?
(2) Do you think the prison system, as shown in the video, achieved justice?
(3) How does the film relate to what you learned, from course materials about how the criminal justice system affect families?
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Sociology 62 Families and Intimate Relations
Professor Kristin Turney
Video Lesson: Trends in Incarceration 1
Prisoners Under State and Federal Jurisdiction, 1925-2012
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
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Cumulative Risk of Paternal Incarceration for Children Born in 1990, by Age 14
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Source: Wildeman (2009)
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Rise in mass incarceration
• Dramatic increase in U.S. incarceration rate since mid-1970s • Changes in economic and social life of urban men • Punitive turn in criminal justice policy • Increase in number of incarcerated parents • Social patterning of incarceration
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The End.
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Sociology 62 Families and Intimate Relations
Professor Kristin Turney
Video Lesson: Consequences of Incarceration for Families 1
Consequences of mass incarceration
• Some crime-fighting effects of incarceration • Effects on men • Effects on women attached to incarcerated
(or formerly incarcerated) men • Effects on children
• Increasing inequality for family life 2
Incarceration and marriage
• Theoretically, why would incarceration affect marriage? • Incapacitation • Erodes “marriageability” • Erodes men’s economic capacities • Increases stigma • Influences relationships
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Incarceration and marriage
• Race/ethnic differences in association between incarceration and marriage • No effect for Whites • Very small effect for Hispanics • Large effect for Blacks • Gap gets smaller when accounting for
employment
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Incarceration and divorce
• Theoretically, why would incarceration affect divorce? • Incapacitation • Erodes “marriageability” • Erodes men’s economic capacities • Increases stigma • Influences relationships
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Incarceration and divorce
• Race/ethnic differences in association between incarceration and divorce • Large effect for Whites • Large effect for Hispanics • No effect for Blacks • Gap gets smaller when accounting for
employment
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Incarceration and parenting
• Effects on fathers’ parenting • Spillover effects on mothers’ and social
fathers’ parenting • Effects differ for residential and
nonresidential parents
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Incarceration and parenting
• Some evidence that incarceration is a turning point that prompts involvement with children • Incarceration diminishes time spent with
children, coparenting, and quality of father- child interactions
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Conclusions…
• Paternal incarceration alters the fabric of family life • Inmates embedded in networks made up of
partners and children
• Incarceration as a new form of family instability?
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The End.
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