ERIC Number: EJ839015
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Publication Date: 2009
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Incarceration and Living Arrangements: Findings from the National Health and Social Life Survey
London, Andrew S.; Parker, Wendy M.
Journal of Family Issues, v30 n6 p787-812 2009
The authors use data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey to examine the association between incarceration and living arrangements, net of a range of sociodemographic and early life characteristics. Relative to living with a spouse and child(ren), there is evidence that a history of incarceration is strongly associated with several nonnuclear living arrangements, including living alone, as a sole adult with child(ren), with a partner and child(ren), with a partner but no child, and with other family but no spouse, partner, or child. These living arrangements may be indicative of lower levels of social integration, which have potentially serious consequences for these individuals as well as their families and communities. The authors discuss these results with reference to the decades-long, unprecedented mass incarceration that is ongoing in the United States today. (Contains 2 tables and 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Context Effect, Social Integration, Family Environment, Place of Residence, Residential Patterns, Mothers, At Risk Persons, Recidivism, Group Unity, Early Experience
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Language: English
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