 Fanesha Jackson |
SCHOOL: Tougaloo College
MAJOR: Psychology MENTOR: Dr. Sonja Burnham EXPECTED GRADUATION DATE: May 2004 ORGANIZATIONS & HONORS:
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ABSTRACT
An Inherited Sentence: An Investigation of Children of
Incarcerated
Parents
| Everyday an increasing number of children are being separated from their parents and left to be raised in single or foster parent homes. Although these children have not committed a crime or caused the separation, they are forced to suffer. Every individual must live by the laws of the land; however, sometimes these same laws impose their justice on innocents; children of incarcerated parents. This research is an attempt to educate and inform individuals of the different situations and circumstances that children face after their parent’s incarceration. When the system “makes an example” of a young man or woman or “throws away the key”, they are also taking away a mother/father, wife/husband, confidant, child, and often times the head of a household. |