Parental Incarceration
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Parental Incarceration is a collection of personal stories by adults who have experienced parental incarceration as children. These stories highlight the complex circumstances that influence these children's health, development, and their high risk for intergenerational crime and incarceration. Denise Johnston examines her own children's experience of her incarceration within the context of her 30 years of practice with prisoners. Megan Sullivan, a scholar in the Humanities, examines the effects of her father's incarceration on her family and with respect to her own educational and class outcomes.…mehr

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Parental Incarceration is a collection of personal stories by adults who have experienced parental incarceration as children. These stories highlight the complex circumstances that influence these children's health, development, and their high risk for intergenerational crime and incarceration. Denise Johnston examines her own children's experience of her incarceration within the context of her 30 years of practice with prisoners. Megan Sullivan, a scholar in the Humanities, examines the effects of her father's incarceration on her family and with respect to her own educational and class outcomes.
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Autorenporträt
Denise Johnston is the director of Families & Criminal Justice, the successor agency to the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. A child development specialist, she has developed and directed educational, therapeutic, family support, and advocacy services for more than 25,000 families of justice-involved parents since 1988. Dr. Johnston has authored numerous publications for families and for professionals, and edited Children of Incarcerated Parents, the first comprehensive North American text on this subject. Megan Sullivan is the author of Women in Northern Ireland: Cultural Studies and Material Conditions (University Press of Florida, 1999), Irish Women and Cinema: 1980-1990 (NOVA Southeastern University, 2001), and many essays and articles. Her essay "My Father's Prison" was awarded the Anthony Prize in Prose from Between the Lines Literary Journal. She co-edited "Children of Incarcerated Parents" for S&F Online. She is Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, and serves as the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning.