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Crime, Tough
on Families?
Criminal Justice
and Family Life
in America
By
SARA WAKEFIELD,
HEDWIG LEE,
and
CHRISTOPHER WILDEMAN
Keywords: mass imprisonment; criminal justice;
family; inequality; drug offenders
The magnitude of today's drug problem can be
traced to past unwillingness to recognize and
confront this problem. And the vaccine that's
going to end the epidemic is a combination of
tough laws-like the one we sign today-and a
dramatic change in public attitude....
This legislation is not intended as a means of fill-
ing our jails with drug users. What we must do as
a society is identify those who use drugs, reach
out to them, help them quit, and give them the
support they need to live right.
-President Ronald Reagan, remarks on signing
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 19861
Too many kids don't have parents who care.
Gangs and drugs have taken over our streets and
undermined our schools. Every day we read
about somebody else who has literally gotten
away with murder. But the American people
haven't forgotten the difference between right
and wrong. The system has....
Sara Wakefield is an assistant professor in the School of
Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Her research
interests focus on the consequences of mass imprison-
ment for the family, with an emphasis on childhood
well-being and racial inequality. She is coauthor of
Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and
the Future of American Inequality (with Christopher
Wildeman; Oxford University Press 2013). Related work
examines the social networks and conditions of confine-
n(it of inmates and social/family ties during reentry.
H edwig Lee is an associate professor of sociology at the
Unirersity of Washington in Seattle. She is also a fac-
ulti affiliate of the Center for Research on Demography
and Ecology, West Coast Poverty Center, and Center
for Statistics and the Social Sciences and co-leads the
Northwest Region Scholars Strategy Network. She is
broadly interested in the social determinants and con-
sequences of population health and health disparities,
with a particular focus on race/ethnicity, poverty, race-
related stress, and the family.
Correspondence: sarawakefield@rutgers.edu
DOI: 10.1177/0002716216637048
ANNALS, AAPSS, 665, May 2016
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