Term paper on Mass incarceration.

 

Term paper on Mass incarceration.

attached is what I need.Wildeman, Christopher, Jason Schnittker, and Kristin Turney.
2012. “Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with
Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers” American Sociological
Review 77: 216-243.Page Count: 27Abstract A burgeoning literature considers the consequences of
mass imprisonment for the well-being of adult men and – albeit to a
lesser degree – their children. Yet virtually no quantitative
research considers the consequences of mass imprisonment for the
well-being of the women who are the link between (former) prisoners
and their children. This article extends research on the collateral
consequences of mass imprisonment by considering the association
between paternal incarceration and maternal mental health using
data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Results
show that recent paternal incarceration increases a mother’s risk
of a major depressive episode and her level of life
dissatisfaction, net of a variety of influences including prior
mental health. The empirical design lends confidence to a causal
interpretation: effects of recent incarceration persist even when
the sample is limited to mothers attached to previously
incarcerated men, which provides a rigorous counterfactual. In
addition, the empirical design is comprehensive; after isolating
key mechanisms anticipated in the literature, we reduce the
relationship between recent paternal incarceration and maternal
mental health to statistical insignificance. These results imply
that the penal system may have important effects on poor women’s
well-being beyond increasing their economic insecurity,
compromising their marriage markets, or magnifying their risk of
divorce.REQUIREMENTSYour paper should review at least three academic sources of
empirical information pertaining to your research question.
Specifically, in addition to the article you start with, you will
need to obtain two additional academic sources such as academic
books (not including textbooks) or research articles published in
academic journals (e.g. the American Journal of Sociology, the
Journal of Marriage and the Family, etc.). The article you begin
with (that is, one of the four articles cited above) can count as
one of your three “major” references.In addition to your three primary academic sources, you can also
use as many non-academic sources as you like, but be sure to pay
attention to the quality of information you’re referencing. That
is, there is a difference between highly regarded news sources and
much of what passes for news on the internet. As a general rule,
websites ending in .org, .gov or .edu can be better trusted than
.com sites.It is critical to link your literature review to class material
and text information. What kinds of connections can be made? For
instance, if you are reviewing the Stacey and Biblarz article, you
might include examples from our class discussion of sexuality and
marriage and family as well as the textbook discussion of those
topics.Your research paper must be typed in size 12 fonts,
double-spaced, with a MINIMUM of six pages (not including the title
page or the works cited page), but no more than eight pages. Your
sources should be cited using the American Psychological
Association in-text citation method. Tips and guidelines for the
APA method of citation can be found at the American Psychological
Association website (. The author and publication
information above each of the abstracts is shown in proper APA
format (as they should show on your works cited page).

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