Fathers Behind Bars
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.8 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Rafael Mangual joins Kay Hymowitz to discuss evidence suggesting that children are often better off when criminal parents are imprisoned—the subject of Mangual's story, "Fathers, Families, and Incarceration," from the Winter 2020 Issue of City Journal.
A common criticism of incarceration in the United States, notes Mangual, is that it harms children by taking parents or siblings out of their homes. But recent studies show that children living with a parent who engages in high levels of antisocial behavior may be worse off than kids with incarcerated parents.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Ten Blocks Podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. |
| 0:04.8 | Coming up on today's show, my colleague and longtime City Journal contributing editor, |
| 0:09.6 | Kayeimowitz, will interview another writer for the magazine, Ralph Manguel, to discuss his |
| 0:14.9 | newest piece from the Winter 2020 issue, entitled Fathers, Families, and Incarceration. You can find it on the City Journal website, |
| 0:24.4 | and we'll be sure to link to it in the podcast description. As our listeners are probably aware, |
| 0:30.2 | one of the criticisms of the criminal justice system made by both radical activists and |
| 0:35.6 | conservative reformers, at least some, is that incarceration |
| 0:39.2 | tears families apart by taking parents and siblings out of their homes. Ralph's essay looks at |
| 0:46.7 | the evidence for this, which suggests that jailing criminals is often better on balance for |
| 0:52.2 | their families, especially for children. It's a fascinating piece. |
| 0:56.6 | That's all for the introduction. We'll take a quick break, and then the conversation between |
| 1:01.7 | Keimowitz and Ralph Manguel E. Simon Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal. |
| 1:27.3 | And I'm going to be talking today to Raphael Manguel. of the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor at City Journal. |
| 1:27.5 | And I'm going to be talking today to Raphael Manguel, |
| 1:32.5 | who is also a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, |
| 1:36.2 | the director of legal policies. |
| 1:38.9 | Deputy director. |
| 1:40.2 | You promoted me. |
| 1:41.1 | Yes, right, that's right. |
| 1:43.0 | And also contributing editor at City Journal, many, many hats. |
| 1:48.0 | We're going to talk a little bit about criminal justice reform, but a very specific topic. |
| 1:56.0 | One of the primary arguments that justice we make in the criminal justice debate is that |
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