Details

Related name

• Bir, Anupa [Browse]
• Lindquist, Christine [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

ICPSR ; 36639 [More in this series]

Restrictions note

Available. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.

Summary note

This collection contains data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering [MSF-IP]. The MSF-IP is an evaluation of a grant program funded by the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to promote or sustain healthy relationships and to strengthen families in which a father was incarcerated or otherwise involved with the criminal justice system (e.g., recently released or on parole or probation). From 2006-2011, grantees were required to serve justice-involved fathers and their committed partners with services to promote healthy marriage; they were also permitted to provide activities to support parenting and foster economic stability. The MFS-IP evaluation was funded to document program implementation and the impact of programming on outcomes such as relationship quality and stability, parenting and co-parenting, family financial well-being, and recidivism. This collection includes data from the impact study, conducted across five grantees: the Indiana Department of Correction, the RIDGE Project (Ohio), the New Jersey Department of Corrections, the Osborne Association (New York), and the Minnesota Council on Crime and Justice. The collection includes de-identified interview data for 1,991 men and 1,482 intimate and co-parenting partners. The interviews took place from December 2008 through August 2014. Couples were first interviewed during the male partner's incarceration (with the timing of baseline interviews not related to the man's admission or release date in most sites) and then interviewed again nine and 18 months after baseline. In the two largest sites (Indiana and Ohio), an additional 34-month follow-up interview was conducted. The interviews were similar in content at each interview wave and for the male and female interviews, but differed based on male partner's trajectory of incarceration and release over the follow-up period. Topics within this collection include demographics, personal characteristics and attitudes, criminal history and behavior, incarceration experiences (including family contact during incarceration), program and service receipt, expectations for release, family structure and functioning, intimate relationship quality, parenting and co-parenting quality, child well-being, employment, housing, substance use, and experiences with reentry. Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36639

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2017-11-20.

Type of data

Numeric

Geographic coverage

• Indiana
• Minnesota
• New Jersey
• New York (state)
• Ohio

Funding information

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Contract No. HHSP23320062920YC

System details

Mode of access: Intranet.

Methodology note

Incarcerated men and their intimate or co-parenting partners who received OFA family strengthening programming or were selected as comparison subjects in 5 states between December 2008 and August 2012.

Contents

• Additional Variables
• Female 18 Month Variables
• Female 34 Month Variables
• Female 9 Month Variables
• Female Baseline Variables
• Male 18 Month Variables
• Male 34 Month Variables
• Male 9 Month Variables
• Male Baseline Variables

Show 6 more Contents items

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...