Family Ties: Overview of Intersection between families and criminal justice systems

Following up from yesterday, when Jennifer, Ethan and I posted our introduction to our new paper entitled "Criminal Justice and the Antigone Problem: Should Family Ties Matter?," today we're posting a good chunk of Part I, where we discuss the various intersections between family and criminal justice issues.  It was taking quite a while to copy the Word doc with formatting into the typepad software so I've decided to post today's excerpt here as a Word document.  I've deleted most footnotes.  Constructive comments are welcome on the blog or via private email to us. (Our contact info appears through links on the sidebar.)