Research Article Analysis

The purpose of this research is to show the negative effects that caused by an individual being incarcerated. The individual is the one that does the crime but yet they are not the only one that suffers the consequences'. Their action affects things like employment, earnings, and family relationships. If the individual has children they will more than likely be incarcerated by the time have they reached adulthood. I will start my search by doing a pure research so that the numbers are up to date. Then I will do an empirical research by first checking the number of inmates that are incarcerated and find out what the number one cause of being in jail is for. After I get the number and reason why, I will use qualitative research by formulating the information and putting the data collected together. I will further my search by comparing other prisons in different cities to see who has the most inmates. From there I can check the schools to see who has the lowest number of graduates. I will then examine one Dimension of the economic risk faced by children of incarcerated fathers.."Nearly one in eight Fragile Families fathers were incarcerated at some point between their child's first and fifth birthdays further information about the sampled men, by incarceration status, is provided in Table 3. Underlining the low economic status of the Fragile Families fathers, the never incarcerated contributed only about $8,000 to their children in the year prior the Year 5 interview. Formerly incarcerated fathers contributed significantly less— just over $2,600. This lower contribution level reflects that fathers with incarceration histories are both less likely to financially contribute to their families at all (only 60% contribute, compared with 86% of fathers who have never been incarcerated), and that those who do contribute give less (a bit more than $4,200 by men with incarceration histories, compared with more than $9,200 by men who have never been incarcerated). Men whose incarceration histories are unknown fall somewhere between the two: they are nearly as unlikely to contribute to their families as the men with known incarceration histories, but among contributors, the amount given falls between that given by formerly incarcerated and never incarcerated fathers.

Explanation of back ground to the research problem.

I will start by using population-based sample of urban children to examine the effects of incarceration on this support "Both cross sectional and longitudinal regressions indicate that formerly incarcerated men are less likely to contribute to their families, and those who do contribute provide significantly less". I will use the Methodology method by collecting facts or data regarding the nature of crimes.

Research question

I will ask the inmates that are incarcerated how they feel about their families struggle to survive everyday and if they know the risk they put their children in by being in jail. I will then ask them if they had a chance to do it all over again would they make the same choose again.

Justification of proposed study:

In 2002, more than 1.1 million parents in the United States (mostly fathers), who have more than 2.4 million minor children, were incarcerated in state and federal prison or local jails (Mumola 2006). Incarceration has been shown to undermine couple relationships and risks reducing father-child contact, even after the father's full sentence is served (Lopoo and Western 2006).

Issues that emerge from the problems:

The incarcerated population is overwhelmingly young, minority, and poorly educated (Petersilia 2003; Western 2006), and the children of incarcerated parents are even more disadvantaged, relative to their peers (Wildeman 2009).A handful of studies have examined the children of incarcerated parents in the context of their local population, finding them to be at serious risk. Phillips et al.

Deductive logic

Our dependent variable, the amount of money fathers contribute to their children, counts a share of earnings for fathers living with their children and counts child support contributions for nonresident fathers. Betson (2006) estimated that families with one child, on average, devote approximately 25% of their spending to the child. We therefore assume that fathers living with their partners and children contribute 25% of their earnings, from both the regular and informal labor markets, to childrearing.

Inductive logic

The financial contribution of nonresident fathers is measured by the amount of cash that the child's mother reports receiving in the past year, in both formal and informal child support. If the mother reports receiving the entire amount