Dear RSF:

Please join us Wednesday, January 29 at 11:00 in the library for Visiting Scholar Kristin Turney’s presentation, “What Doing Time Does to Families: Incarceration and Family Life in the United States.”

Turney received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her joint B.S. in Journalism and Sociology from Northwestern University. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Irvine, where she has worked since 2011.  Prior to UC-Irvine, Turney was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan.   Turney is working on a book manuscript this year which utilizes data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and propensity-score matching models to study the consequences of incarceration for family life. She is exploring the short-and long-term consequences of fathers’ incarceration on romantic relationships, family members’ economic wellbeing, parenting practices, and health outcomes. Her project also studies how the effects of paternal incarceration on family life vary by race and ethnicity, educational attainment, and residential status.