Wakefield and Wildeman 2014

Question 1

research question

Answer 1

how does parental incarceration impact children based on parental violence and offense type?

Question 2

method/data

Answer 2

longitudinal analysis using FFWC and PHDCN -> tracking white/black children with incarcerated fathers via lagged dependent variable, fixed effects, and propensity score model, child outcomes

Question 3

main finding

Answer 3

non-abusive/nonviolent fathers -> increases child aggression while violent fathers have null effects

50% of black children with low education fathers experienced parental incarceration

Question 4

relevance to deviance, crime, and violence

Answer 4

reveals impacts of parental incarceration on children -> bad for nonviolent families but beneficial for violent families (harm is removed from environment)

mass incarceration: structural driver of racialized crime cycles