DISENTANGLING THE RISKS: PARENT CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT AND CHILDREN'S EXPOSURE TO FAMILY RISKS

作     者：SUSAN D. PHILLIPS PhD ALAATTIN ERKANLI PhD GORDON P. KEELER MS E. JANE COSTELLO PhD ADRIAN ANGOLD PhD 

作者机构：Assistant Professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Phillips was previously the Community Resource Development Coordinator for the Parenting from Prison Program and a co-founder of the Family Matters Program at Centers for Youth and Families in Little Rock Arkansas. Dr. Phillips was also recently a Research Associate in the Service Effectiveness Research Program at Duke University Medical Center where her research interests included modeling the effects of parent criminal justice system involvement on child and family outcomes. Associate Research Professor of Biometry in the Developmental Epidemiology Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Statistician SAS programmer and database manager for the Developmental Epidemiology Program at Duke University. Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and the Principal Investigator of the Great Smoky Mountains Study. She and Dr. Adrian Angold founded the Developmental Epidemiology Program at Duke in 1988. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Principal Investigator of the Caring for Children in the Community Study a longitudinal investigation of psychiatric disorder service use and cardiovascular risk in children and adolescents in a four-county region in North Carolina. 

出 版 物：《Criminology & Public Policy》 

年 卷 期：2006年第5卷第4期

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120401[管理学-行政管理] 

主　　题：Incarceration Unintended Consequences Delinquency Risk Factors Social Disorganization Crime 

摘      要：Research Summary: The analyses reported in this article are based on data from a longitudinal epidmiologic study of youth from 11 rural counties in North Carolina—the Great Smoky Mountains Study. Nearly half (47.4%) of the children in the population represented in this study had a parent or other parent figure who had been arrested as an adult. Analyses showed that parent risk factors (i.e., substance abuse, mental illness, and lack of education) had a significant direct effect on children s exposure to family risks. These parent risk factors were also associated with greater odds of parental involvement in the criminal justice system (CJS), which in turn, had a significant association with children s likelihood of experiencing two types of family risks (i.e., economic strain and instability), net the effect of parent risk factors. Parent CJS involvement, however, was not significantly associated with family risks related to family structure or quality of care. Exposure to risks in these latter domains was better explained by the direct effect of parental substance abuse, mental health problems, and lack of education. Policy Implications: These findings provide empirical evidence that parent CJS involvement is significantly related to children s exposure to certain types of family risks independent of the possible confounding effect of parent risks. The fact that the two domains of family risks that were associated with CJS involvement were economic adversity and family stability is noteworthy as these mirror two of the ecological correlates of crime that are thought to be perpetuated by high levels of incarceration—poverty and population mobility. Second, these findings suggest that it is unrealistic to expect correctional programs that focus on inmates relationships with their children to single-handedly impact intergenerational incarceration. Programs of this nature may play an important role in offsetting some of the more immediate adverse effects parental inca