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- Title
Incarcerated youth and their siblings: A review of historical and current context, and future directions.
- Authors
Garza, Micheal; Williams, Claire
- Abstract
The 2020 Juvenile Residential Facility Census reports that roughly 25,000 youth in the United States (U.S.) are incarcerated—placing the United States as the leading nation in number of juveniles in correctional facilities worldwide. This paper aims to highlight an overlooked population impacted by this issue: not the incarcerated youth themselves, but their siblings. This paper first grounds historical trends, the effects of racialized sociopolitical systems on disparate rates of incarceration, and the current state of youth incarceration, with a specific focus on impacts on families. This paper reviews the literature on how families are affected by the juvenile justice system in terms of their well‐being, education, and other outcomes—drawing from the small body of research directly on siblings and hypothesizing impacts in need of further study based on families' experiences in the criminal justice system. We present historical and current issues/limitations to understanding and addressing the impacts of youth incarceration on siblings, concluding with areas of future research needed to address the impacts that a youth's incarceration has on their siblings and family.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JUVENILE justice administration; SIBLINGS; CRIMINAL justice system; JUVENILE offenders
- Publication
Juvenile & Family Court Journal, 2024, Vol 75, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0161-7109
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jfcj.12254