Stigma, health and incarceration: Turning the tide for children with a parent in prisonChildren affected by parental imprisonment are vulnerable to a range of sub-optimal health and social outcomes.The incarceration of a parent has a profound effect on children who may already have been exposed to a range of life adversity issues.Parental imprisonment is a growing global concern, not least because of the impact of social, economic and ethnic inequities upon incarceration but because the influence of mass imprisonment " extends far beyond parents to entire families and neighborhoods" (Wakefield and Wildeman, 2011: 806).
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