- Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Laura Cuesta, and Jennifer L. Noyes
- August 2016
- FF24-2016
- Link to FF24-2016 (PDF)
Despite a decline in the U.S. prison population in recent years, the incarceration rate remains exceptionally high, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. This is well-known. Less well-known is that the incidence of child protective services (CPS) involvement in the United States is also quite high and, again, particularly so among disadvantaged groups. Incarceration and CPS involvement may have a range of independent and interactive influences on parents, children, and families; involvement in one system may also be associated with subsequent involvement in the other. This brief describes our work using a unique longitudinal data system of linked administrative data from Wisconsin to describe overlap between parental incarceration and child CPS involvement, and between adolescent CPS involvement and subsequent incarceration in young adulthood.
Categories
Child Maltreatment & Child Welfare System, Children, Incarceration, Justice System, Juvenile Justice, WI Administrative Data Core
Tags
Administrative Data, Data Integration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Court Record Data