Positive, Negative, or Null? The Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Children's Behavioral Problems

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1041-1068

  Wildeman, Christopher ^a   Turney, Kristin ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child behavioral problems; Child well being; Collateral consequences of mass incarceration; Maternal incarceration; Prison boom

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHER; PRISONER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTHERS; PRISONERS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84901981930     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0291-z     Document Type: Article

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