Children with incarcerated parents face a disproportionate number of risk factors for becoming incarcerated (Bilchik, Seymour & Kreisher, 2001; Jucovy, 2003; Martin, 2001). The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze the relationship between episodes of parental incarceration and psycho-social and educational outcomes. This study aimed to find earlier indicators of incarceration risk, in order to provide points for intervention. Concepts from the differential association and social learning theories (criminology), attachment theory (psychology and sociology) and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (motivational psychology, used often in the field of education) were used as a guide in order to create a unique conceptual framework that directs the statistical models selected in this study. The data for the proposed study were drawn from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, which is a project of the Family Development Center at Cornell University. Specifically, the dataset from the Longitudinal Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) was used. ANOVAs and correlations were used preliminarily to explore relationships among variables. The impact that episodes of parental incarceration have on psycho-social variables and educational outcome variables was tested using sequential OLS regression models. The major research question of this study was, "Do psycho-social variables or educational outcomes differ based on episodes of parental incarceration?" The results suggest the only educational outcome that differs based on episodes of parental incarceration is externalized behavior problems. This difference is present in the full sample, but not in the matched sample, implying that this relationship is only significant when compared to low risk subjects, and is not significant when compared to equally at-risk subjects. The secondary question in this research study was, "How does the relationship between attachment to parents and psycho-social variables (post-traumatic stress or self esteem) differ based on episodes of parental incarceration?" The results of this analysis showed that problems with attachment to parents did become a more significant predictor of post- traumatic stress and self esteem when frequency of parental incarceration was added to the regression model. After analysis of the results, two themes are discussed: sample selection and its implication for socio-context of at-risk students and age implication and the role of elapsed time. / Urban Education

Set in the very near future against the ticking clock of climate change, In the Belly Past the Teeth follows a cast of characters who deal with the carceral state and presence of surveillance in their lives. A mother in family court for domestic violence asks herself what is justice in love; a prison guard questions himself after a relationship changes how he sees solitary confinement; a young woman becomes an abolitionist after experiencing the school to prison pipeline; a grandmother find a second chance in foster guardianship; a girl killed by police spurs a movement; a man imprisoned in Attica is haunted by a ghost of the riot. These characters intersect as systems of oppression intersect under the carceral state.

Neoliberalism once started as an economic theory but overtime has developed into an arm of state social control. This thesis asks if neoliberal economic policies have affected civil liberties in the United States and sets out to understand this relationship in several ways. Firstly, by investigating the shift from Keynesianism to market fundamentalism. Secondly, by evaluating the growth in the prison industrial complex. Third, by asking questions of growing social insecurity from an increasingly privatized social safety net. This thesis explored four hypotheses, each one finding support. The overall argument is that the economic sphere and the free market has obstructed the social sphere. Finally, the thesis concludes with a brief discussion of toxic individualism as it relates to socialization after a long period of extreme market privatization. / Master of Arts / Ever since the 1980s, the United States has experienced an increase in incarceration rates, and simultaneously a more substantial shift in economic practices, from Keynesianism to what became colloquially known as "trickle down economics." This thesis argues that the economic change, defined in this work as neoliberalism, subsequently affected how welfare and social services manage social insecurity in the United States, including the criminal justice system. This paper will discuss the tenets of neoliberalism and how these core tenets, i.e. privatization, affected the welfare state and the prison industrial complex.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The millions of people in prison across the country experience numerous health disparities and injustices despite having a constitutional right to health care. In chapter 1, the issues surrounding health inequity in prison are highlighted through two case studies on patient autonomy. From a bioethical standpoint, patient autonomy is integral to a person’s health, yet it is frequently violated in prison in multiple ways, including a lack of informed consent and the censorship of health literature. Greater awareness and advocacy efforts are needed to safeguard patient health within the carceral system.Chapter 2 highlights the importance of incorporating prison health into medical education, where currently few opportunities exist. In recent years, medical school curricula have placed increasing emphasis on the social determinants of health, which include prison health. Service-learning offers a potential means for incorporating prison health education into medical school curricula, as it represents an experiential learning modality that facilitates the formation of relationships between medical students and the surrounding community. The Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s prison health service-learning program was established in collaboration with Prison Health News and serves as one example for how students can learn about the social determinants of health and play a direct role in advocating for marginalized patient populations. / Urban Bioethics

Este trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo da literatura carcerária brasileira (escrita no cárcere ou sob a forma de reminiscência), com ênfase nos escritores que viveram durante o período do Estado Novo (1937-1945). A partir do exame de textos de caráter ficcional, epistolar e memorialístico, procuramos investigar como os autores operaram em suas obras a representação do cárcere, ou, mais precisamente, como refletiram sobre o universo carcerário e como o recriaram enquanto matéria literária. No âmbito historiográfico, procuramos demonstrar que o fenômeno do encarceramento percorre a história da literatura brasileira, sobretudo após a instauração do regime republicano. Trata-se de um trabalho de caráter panorâmico, que parte de apontamentos introdutórios para depois aprofundar-se nos autores inscritos no período referido anteriormente, situando mais detidamente alguns pontos que seriam comuns às suas obras e, ao final, procurando esboçar uma caracterização geral acerca da literatura carcerária brasileira. Acreditamos que o estudo dos escritos do cárcere constitui ocasião privilegiada para examinar a questão do resgate da memória histórica e da identidade individual enquanto fenômeno que conduziria à idéia de uma ética e de uma estética da resistência, forjadas sob as injunções da prisão política. / This work aims to make a study of the Brazilian incarceration literature (written in prison or under the form of memoirs), emphasizing the writers who lived during the period known as Estado Novo (1937-1945). Throughout the examination of fictional, epistolary and memorial texts, we tried to investigate how the authors have made the representation of the prison in their literary compositions, or, more precisely, how they reflected on the incarceration universe and how they recreate it as literary work. Within the historiographys scope, we have tried to demonstrate that the incarceration phenomenon traverses the history of Brazilian literature, especially after the instauration of the republican regimen. It is a work of panoramic character, which begins with introductory notes and then after becomes a deeper study of the authors that belong to the previously mentioned period, focusing more specifically in certain points that would be common to their works and, at the end, tries to sketch a general characterization of the incarceration Brazilian literature. We believe that the study of the pieces of writing from the prisons constitute a privileged occasion to examine the matter of rescuing the historic memory as well as the individual identity as a phenomenon which would lead to the idea of an ethics and an esthetics of resistance, forged under the injunctions of political incarceration.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo da literatura carcerária brasileira (escrita no cárcere ou sob a forma de reminiscência), com ênfase nos escritores que viveram durante o período do Estado Novo (1937-1945). A partir do exame de textos de caráter ficcional, epistolar e memorialístico, procuramos investigar como os autores operaram em suas obras a representação do cárcere, ou, mais precisamente, como refletiram sobre o universo carcerário e como o recriaram enquanto matéria literária. No âmbito historiográfico, procuramos demonstrar que o fenômeno do encarceramento percorre a história da literatura brasileira, sobretudo após a instauração do regime republicano. Trata-se de um trabalho de caráter panorâmico, que parte de apontamentos introdutórios para depois aprofundar-se nos autores inscritos no período referido anteriormente, situando mais detidamente alguns pontos que seriam comuns às suas obras e, ao final, procurando esboçar uma caracterização geral acerca da literatura carcerária brasileira. Acreditamos que o estudo dos escritos do cárcere constitui ocasião privilegiada para examinar a questão do resgate da memória histórica e da identidade individual enquanto fenômeno que conduziria à idéia de uma ética e de uma estética da resistência, forjadas sob as injunções da prisão política. / This work aims to make a study of the Brazilian incarceration literature (written in prison or under the form of memoirs), emphasizing the writers who lived during the period known as Estado Novo (1937-1945). Throughout the examination of fictional, epistolary and memorial texts, we tried to investigate how the authors have made the representation of the prison in their literary compositions, or, more precisely, how they reflected on the incarceration universe and how they recreate it as literary work. Within the historiographys scope, we have tried to demonstrate that the incarceration phenomenon traverses the history of Brazilian literature, especially after the instauration of the republican regimen. It is a work of panoramic character, which begins with introductory notes and then after becomes a deeper study of the authors that belong to the previously mentioned period, focusing more specifically in certain points that would be common to their works and, at the end, tries to sketch a general characterization of the incarceration Brazilian literature. We believe that the study of the pieces of writing from the prisons constitute a privileged occasion to examine the matter of rescuing the historic memory as well as the individual identity as a phenomenon which would lead to the idea of an ethics and an esthetics of resistance, forged under the injunctions of political incarceration.

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Approximately half of all incarcerated individuals in the United States are young African American men. Researchers have documented that nonincarcerated siblings may commit a crime when their sibling is in prison. The current study addressed literature regarding the experiences, and coping strategies of nonincarcerated young African American men who live in the inner city, and have a male sibling in prison. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, this interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) study explored the lived experiences and coping strategies of African American male youth with a brother in incarceration. Purposive sampling was used to select 3 nonincarcerated African American young men aged 18 to 24 years living in the inner city of a large city in southern Connecticut for in-depth interviews. Overall findings showed that while having an incarcerated sibling was a profoundly negative experience for study participants, and their families, the study participants also developed some positive coping strategies as a result of their experiences. These results could help policymakers, social workers, counselors, and criminal justice professionals understand the impacts of sibling incarceration, and learn how to deal more effectively with youth affected by it. .

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This study offers a rhetorical analysis of George Jackson’s Soledad Brother, informed by class critical and critical race theory. Recent rhetorical studies scholarship has taken up the problem of prisons, mass incarceration, and resultant issues of race, yet without paying attention to the nexus of black radicalism and criticisms of capital. This study views George Lester Jackson as a rhetorician in his own right and argues that his combination of critical race and class critical perspectives is an important move forward in the analysis of mass incarceration. Jackson is able to combine these ideas in a plain-writing style where he employs intimacy, distance, and the strategy of telling it like it is. He does this in epistolary form, calling forth a long tradition of persuasive public letter writing. At this study’s end, ideas of circulation re engaged to show the lines of influence Jackson has and may continue to have. Through rhetorical analysis of Soledad Brother, this study demonstrates the utility of uniting class critical criticism and critical race theory for rhetorical studies, and suggests further avenues of research consistent with this approach.