
All Alone in the World
Children of the Incarcerated
Nell Bernstein(Author)
The New Press
Published on 1. December 2005
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-56584-952-5 (ISBN)
Description
One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision right now - incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society. Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family, journalist Nell Bernstein shows, through the deeply moving stories of real families, how the children of the incarcerated are routinely punished for their parents' status; ignored, neglected, stigmatized, and endangered, with minimal effort made to help them cope. Topics range from children's experiences at the time of their parent's arrest, to laws and politics that force even low-level offenders to forfeit their parental rights, to alternative sanctions that take into account prisoners' status as mothers and fathers. All Alone in the World defines a crucial aspect of criminal justice and, in doing so, illuminates a critical new realm of human rights.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-952-5 (9781565849525)
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Person
Nell Bernstein is an award-winning journalist and former Soros Media Fellow at the Open Society Institute of New York whose articles have appeared in Redbook, Salon.com, MotherJones.com, and The Industry Standard.