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9 J. Ethnicity Crim. Just. 1 (2011)

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journal ofEthnicity in CriminalJustice, 9:1-21, 2011         Routledge
Copyright 0 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC                      Taylor& Francis Group
ISSN: 1537-7938 print / 1537-7946 online
DOI: 10.1080/15377938.2011.535457



    The   Influence of Incarceration on Children
        at  the   Intersection of Parental Gender
                and   Race/Ethnicity: A Focus
              on   Child Living Arrangements


                             HOLLY   FOSTER
       Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA


     Children  of fathers are found to be more likely to live with their
     otherparent during incarceration than are children of mothers in a
     state sample. Although patterns are similarfor men across race and
     ethnicity, patterns differ among women: children of non-Hispanic
     White  women  are  more likely to live with their other parent than
     are children of African American  and  Hispanic mothers. Among
     mothers, income  levels explain racial and ethnic differences in the
     odds  of living with the other parent during imprisonment. If race
     and  ethnic disparities in income were reduced, disruption in child
     living arrangements during  imprisonment  may  be minimized.

     KEYTERMS      Parental incarceration, children's living arrange-
     ments, gender, race/ethnicity, intersectionality

                            INTRODUCTION

The  intergenerational collateral consequences of mass incarceration or the
rising rates of incarceration in the United States are now emerging for chil-
dren  (Hagan &  Dinovitzer, 1999; Murray & Farrington, 2008; Travis & Waul,


    Received March 30, 2010; accepted July 30, 2010.
    Address correspondence to Holly Foster, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M Univer-
sity, Mail Stop 4351, College Station, TX 77843. E-mail: hfoster@tamu.edu
    With gratitude I acknowledge the support for this research from the Race and Ethnic
Studies Institute at Texas A&M University and permission from the Texas Department of
Health and Human Services to analyze data gathered for the Texas Commission on Alcohol
and Drug Abuse. I appreciate the helpful comments of John Hagan, Mark Fossett, Janice
Joseph, Joseph Jewell, and the anonymous reviewers of this research. A presentation based
on this work was given at the Justice Statistics Research Association National Conference. The
author and not those acknowledged is responsible for this work.


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