When Are You Coming Home?: How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail

About Hilary CuthrellJulie PoehlmannLuke Muentner

HILARY CUTHRELL PhD currently serves as a correctional programs specialist at the National Institute of Corrections Federal Bureau of Prisons. She manages The Family Strengthening Projecta national project specifically focused on children of incarcerated parents in both local and state correctional facilities. She recently completed a post-doctoral position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also served as an adjunct faculty member at Indiana State University. She has been published in a number of journals but this will be her first book.  LUKE MUENTNER PhD is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Department of Pediatrics. His research investigates the consequences of parental incarceration and reentry for children; his work has been published in numerous criminology developmental and social work journals including Crime & Delinquency Developmental Psychobiology and Family Relations.  JULIE POEHLMANN PhD is the Dorothy A. OBrien Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has served as a professor in the human development and family studies department (HDFS) for the past 20 years. In addition to authoring 75 peer-reviewed articles and chapters she is the editor of Childrens Contact with Incarcerated Parents: Implications for Policy and Intervention and a coeditor of Handbook on Children with Incarcerated Parents.