Born innocent : protecting the dependents of accused caregivers /

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Author / Creator:Sullivan, Michael John, 1980- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Description:257 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13127416
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ISBN:9780197671238
0197671233
9780197671245
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 639 per 100,000 U.S. residents in prison (Sentencing Project 2021, 1). Over 7% of all children in the United States - more than 5 million children - have experienced a parental incarceration, and an estimated 2.7 million children currently have a parent who is incarcerated (Knopf 2018, 3; Arditti 2018, 41). An additional 5 million children under age 18 live with at least one parent without authorization to be in the United States facing deportation (Passel, Cohn and Gramlich 2018). These collateral consequences of mass incarceration and immigration detention are the subject of growing concern among scholars working at the nexus of political science, criminology, and law. Broader, linked issues involving the collateral consequences of "preventive justice" measures like denationalization and anti-terrorism legislation, including the impact of the denationalization of the parents of immigration detainees are of concern to the same scholars, but less explored and undertheorized"--
Other form:Online version: Sullivan, Michael J. Born innocent New York : Oxford University Press, 2023 9780197671245