scholarly journals An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations and Family Financial Support: A Focus on Fathers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9625
Author(s):  
Andrea N. Montes ◽  
Danielle Wallace ◽  
Chantal Fahmy ◽  
Abigail Henson ◽  
Alyssa W. Chamberlain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Violent Offender ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Additional Barrier ◽  
Financial Obligations ◽  
Incarcerated Fathers

Scholars have found that family support is an important facilitator of successful reentry from prison to the community. At the same time, they have argued that owing court-ordered fines or fees, also called legal financial obligations (LFOs), can act as an additional barrier to reentry, especially for parents. There remains a need to test how LFOs impact the financial support formerly incarcerated parents receive from their families. The current study responds to this gap by employing logistic regression analyses of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) data to test whether owing court fees is associated with formerly incarcerated fathers’ (1) perceptions of available financial support from family and (2) receipt of financial support from family. We find that owing court fees is not associated with perceptions of available financial support. However, owing court fees has a positive, statistically significant association with receiving financial support from family during the first three months after prison release. This relationship remains after accounting for whether the person owes child support or sees their children monthly. Our results suggest that LFOs may create a greater need for financial support among formerly incarcerated fathers, making the financial challenges of reentry a consequence not just for those who were incarcerated but for their loved ones as well.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations and Family Financial Support: A Focus on Fathers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea N. Montes ◽  
Danielle Wallace ◽  
Chantal Fahmy ◽  
Abigail Henson ◽  
Alyssa W. Chamberlain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Financial Obligations

scholarly journals Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ami R. Moore ◽  
David Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Specific Reason

This study examined the structural constraints to disclosure of children's positive serostatus among informal caregivers to family and nonfamily members in Togo. It drew on two data sources, one qualitative and the other quantitative. Qualitative data showed that caregivers cautiously disclosed child's positive serostatus for fear of being stigmatized and discriminated against as well as to protect the children from being stigmatized. Binary regression analyses revealed that different factors influenced reasons for disclosure of a child's serostatus. For instance, while caregivers' serostatus and number of children significantly influenced disclosure for financial support, disclosure of a child's serostatus for spiritual support was strongly affected by education and religion. These results shed light on factors and reasons for disclosure among caregivers. This knowledge is important because different types of programs and advice should be given to caregivers with specific reason(s) for disclosure instead of creating a “one-size-fits all” program for all caregivers.

Externalizing Behavior Among Youth With a Current or Formerly Incarcerated Parent

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebony L. Ruhland ◽  
Laurel Davis ◽  
Julie Atella ◽  
Rebecca J. Shlafer
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Parental Incarceration ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
High Risk Behavior ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
A Current

This study examined associations between parental incarceration and youths’ externalizing behaviors (e.g., damage to property, fighting, theft, etc.). Data were drawn from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey, a statewide sample of 126,868 youth in public schools. Logistic regression analyses examined associations between youths’ experience of parental incarceration and their self-reported externalizing behaviors, controlling for key demographic characteristics. Youth with a currently or formerly incarcerated parent reported significantly more externalizing behaviors compared with youth who never had a parent incarcerated. In addition, youth with a currently incarcerated parent reported significantly more externalizing behaviors than youth who had a formerly incarcerated parent in six out of the eight externalizing behaviors. However, youth who reported having a formerly incarcerated parent were more likely to report lying or conning and more likely to have difficulty paying attention than youth who currently had an incarcerated parent. Results illustrate that parental incarceration has important implications for youths’ own risk for delinquency and high-risk behavior.

The Role of Broad-Based Employee Ownership Opportunities in Prisoner Reentry

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 424-429
Author(s):  
Robynn Cox
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Employee Ownership ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership ◽  
Stock Ownership Plans ◽  
Employee Stock Ownership Plans ◽  
The Relationship

This research investigates the relationship between Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and criminal participation as measured by arrests, conviction, and incarceration among formerly incarcerated individuals. Using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I find that formerly incarcerated individuals with ESOP employment are significantly less likely to be arrested, convicted, and incarcerated. This effect likely operates through improvement in labor market outcomes: formerly incarcerated ESOP employees earn approximately 25 percent more in annual income and work roughly 8.8 percent more hours per week than formerly incarcerated workers who are employed but not working for an ESOP firm.

6. Financial support for children

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gilmore ◽  
Lisa Glennon
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Civil Partnership ◽  
The Law

This chapter discusses the law governing child support. Child support is regulated by one or more of several statutes depending on the circumstances: the Child Support Act 1991 (CSA 1991), as amended; Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989; the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; and the Civil Partnership Act 2004. The applicability of the CSA 1991 in a particular case can limit to some extent the use of the other statutes mentioned.

Back-End Sentencing and Parole Revocation

Criminology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryken Grattet
Keyword(s):  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Revolving Door ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Parole Board ◽  
Lower Standard ◽  
Back Door

Back-end sentencing refers to the practice of sending formerly incarcerated people back to prison for parole violations. The concept was popularized by Jeremy Travis in his book But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry (2005) to sensitize researchers and policymakers to the overlooked contribution of parole violations and revocations to the increased use of incarceration during the 1980s to early 2000s. European scholars have used the term “back-door” sentences to refer to the same idea. Although revocation results in an action that is analogous to a sentence, procedures employed in revocation hearings operate under a lower standard of evidence—a “preponderance of the evidence”—and have fewer opportunities for representation and appeal than sentences given out in criminal courts. In California, where back-end sentencing had become routine by 1995, nearly half of all entries into prison annually were the result of parole board revocations rather criminal convictions. A portion of the violations that resulted in reincarceration were “technical violations,” which include noncriminal violations of a parolee’s terms of supervision, such as traveling more than 50 miles from their residence, not showing up for appointments, or associating with gang members or criminal peers. Commentators emphasized the ways that the back-end sentencing traps individuals in a “revolving door” between prison and the community supervision phases of punishment, “churning” back and forth between the two. Some research explicitly employs the term “back-end sentencing” whereas other scholarship relevant to the topic focuses on how parole systems deal with parole violators via the revocation process.

6. Financial support for children

2020 ◽  
pp. 355-381
Author(s):  
Stephen Gilmore ◽  
Lisa Glennon
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Civil Partnership ◽  
The Law

This chapter discusses the law governing child support. Child support is regulated by one or more of several statutes depending on the circumstances: the Child Support Act 1991 (CSA 1991), as amended; Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989; the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; and the Civil Partnership Act 2004. The applicability of the CSA 1991 in a particular case can limit to some extent the use of the other statutes mentioned.

The Child Support Scheme: Failures of the first decade

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Ross Hyams
Keyword(s):  
Child Support ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Australian Child ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
Social Ideology

This article focuses upon the first ten years of implementation of the Australian Child Support Scheme. It investigates the philosophy and social ideology which underpin the Scheme and questions whether the objectives of the Scheme are being achieved. The central thesis is that the ideology of the Scheme needs to be fundamentally altered in order to properly cater for financial support of children of separated families.The article suggests that the amendments put forward by the recent Joint Select Committee investigation into the Child Support Scheme will not ameliorate the deficiencies in the Scheme as they do not go to the pivotal core of what a child support scheme is created to do. The article describes how the ideologies inherent in the Scheme might be altered in order to create a system of child support which would cater for all system users.

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