Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents Research, Policy, and

The second edition of this handbook examines family life, health, and educational issues that often arise for the millions of children in the United States whose parents are in prison or jail. It details how these youth are more likely to exhibit behavior

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Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents Research, Policy, and Practice Second Edition

Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents

J. Mark Eddy Julie Poehlmann-Tynan •

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Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents Research, Policy, and Practice Second Edition

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Editors J. Mark Eddy Family Translational Research Group New York University New York, NY, USA

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan Human Development & Family Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI, USA

ISBN 978-3-030-16706-6 ISBN 978-3-030-16707-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16707-3

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To children with incarcerated parents, in awe of your strength, resilience, and perseverance.

Foreword

I am honored to pen the foreword to the second edition of Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents: Research, Policy, and Practice. As a researcher who investigates family stabilization/destabilization as mothers reenter from prison and who writes about children with parents in the criminal justice system, as a professor who teaches a course on children with parents in the criminal justice system, and as a practitioner who works with a local reentry coalition, If find the material covered in this second edition to be tremendously valuable. It is certainly timely given the current political climate and the increase in the number of children with parents involved with the criminal justice system in the USA. A distinctive aspect of this handbook is that the editors have assembled an interdisciplinary corpus of scholarship from authors who conduct research, design intervention pr