Surveilling System Entanglement: Personal and Place Risk Factors

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Abstract

Entanglements with social control systems are extensive among the most disadvantaged families in the US, and navigating the associated administrative burdens and collateral consequences typically falls to mothers. This study focuses on two particularly consequential forms of system entanglement that shape family functioning: the criminal justice system and child protective services. An extensive body of research has identified both socioeconomic and spatial disparities in the risk of exposure to these social control systems. Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we examine whether neighborhood resource precarity, demographic composition, and direct risk factors for enhanced surveillance moderate the association between mothers' personal risk factors and contact with both social control systems.

Authors

• Allison Dwyer Emory, University at Buffalo

• Sophia Olsinski, University at Buffalo