School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2012;27(1-2):129-47. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2012.629888.
This longitudinal study of 83 incarcerated women, who gave birth during incarceration and retained their parental rights through brief sentences, examines the intersection between subsequent criminal justice involvement postrelease and child welfare outcomes. Ten years of multiple state-level administrative data sets are used to determine if arrest or conviction predict foster care and/or termination of parental rights. Findings indicate that only felony arrest is a significant predictor of foster care involvement. Additionally, 69% of mothers retained legal custody, despite subsequent criminal involvement for many, suggesting supportive parenting programs and resources need to be available to these women throughout and after incarceration.
本纵向研究调查了 83 名在狱中分娩并通过短期判决保留亲权的女性囚犯，研究了她们在获释后的后续刑事司法参与和儿童福利结果之间的交集。该研究使用了 10 年的多个州级行政数据集，以确定逮捕或定罪是否可以预测寄养和/或父母权利终止。研究结果表明，只有重罪逮捕是寄养参与的一个重要预测因素。此外，尽管许多母亲随后都有犯罪行为，但仍有 69%的母亲保留了合法监护权，这表明需要在监禁期间和之后为这些女性提供支持性的育儿计划和资源。
