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??
Sociology 62
Families and Intimate Relations
Professor Kristin Turney
Video Lesson: Trends in Incarceration
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Prisoners Under State and Federal
Jurisdiction, 1925-2012
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
19
25
19
28
19
31
19
34
19
37
19
40
19
43
19
46
19
49
19
52
19
55
19
58
19
61
19
64
19
67
19
70
19
73
19
76
19
79
19
82
19
85
19
88
19
91
19
94
19
97
20
00
20
03
20
06
20
09
20
12
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Total
Male
Female
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Cumulative Risk of Paternal Incarceration
for Children Born in 1990, by Age 14
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
High school dropout High school Some college
White
Black
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
3
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
4
Incarceration and divorce
??Theoretically, why would incarceration affect
divorce?
?? Incapacitation
?? Erodes ?marriageability?
?? Erodes men?s economic capacities
?? Increases stigma
?? Influences relationships
5
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
6
Incarceration and parenting
??Effects on fathers? parenting
??Spillover effects on mothers? and social
fathers? parenting
??Effects differ for residential and
nonresidential parents
7
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
8
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?
9
The End.
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