Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Impact of Parental Imprisonment on Children

Chandrakala T Halemani, Dr. G. S. Venumadhava

Abstract :

 The nation’s growing prison and jail population has raised serious questions about the collateral effects of imprisonment on children, families and communities. Whatever one’s views about the appropriate role of imprisonment in the criminal justice system, it is clear that imprisonment disrupts positive, nurturing relationships between many parents—particularly mothers—and their children. The purpose of a prison sentence is to punish offenders, not their children. It is likely that disruption associated with parental imprisonment, and the values, attitudes and behaviours that are promoted in the child throughout this experience, will be a very negative experience for the child, and may increase the probability of the child him/herself offending later in life (Reed and Reed 1997: 59; Gabel and Johnston 1995:83). It therefore makes sense to protect children as much as possible from the potentially harmful consequences of parental imprisonment.

This paper will provide ief explanation about parental imprisonment create dangerous consequences of parental imprisonment. The point to which parental incarceration causes deviant behaviour problems and crime in the next generation is an important question for criminal justice and sentencing policy to consider as a potential negative externality.

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Chandrakala T Halemani, Dr. G.S. Venumadhava, Impact of Parental Imprisonment on Children, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-8 | AUGUST‾2017

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