The term 'group dynamics' refers to the types of interaction which take place within groups.

I. Introduction:

The United State Departmenrt of Justice report that in 2006,over 7.2 million people were incarcerated, that’s Parole may have different meanings depending on the field and judiciary system. All of the meanings originated from the French parole . Following its use in late-resurrected Anglo-French chivalric practice, the term became associated with the release of prisoners based on prisoners giving their...

more than 1 million nonviolent individual for drug related crime the biggest concerns is that millions of these incarcerated individual are parents. The majority of these parents are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses invovling illegal drugs there is a likelyhood that they will become estangled from their familes for long term sentencings. There are two factors contributing to the spiraling conviction and imprisonment especially at the federal court level. Prosecutors are holding these cases through plea bargaining and conspiracy laws but the most signficant factor fueling to this growth are the mandatory minimum sentencing. This report points to the implications of criminal sanction policies on families of felony offenders. Most important, it will highlight the social, health, and economic characteristics of families and children visiting an imprisoned family member and how these risk factors are connections with incarceration. Methods: To conduct these study researchers used “a semi-structured interview to administer family members visiting an incarcerated parent at the local jail in mid-Atlantic state”. The populations targeted were parents and caregivers who shared minor children with inmates were targeted for the study between the hours of 8:00 am to 11: am. A descriptive and comparative quantitative analyses was performed, including frequencies, nonparametric correlations, and test of difference, and cross –tabulations” to conduct this study,” stepwise multiple regression were also used to explore variables of child health post-admission. • Open-ended questions to assess the parent-child relationships problems created and solved by incarceration. • Cosent forms were given to family member to read before responding to the interview. • Emphasis made on the right to confidentially. III. Finding

What was revealed was that incarceartion created economic and the family relationship problems . Three implication were address to examine the effects on families due to incarceration chartacterists of the families, income status pre and postadmission and parent-child relationship. • Average age of the particitpant, gender, ethnic background, marital status and education. • Financial vulnerability pre and post incarceration. • The effects of relationship with children. • The emotional stress on families.

VI. Discussion:

Several factors have been highligthed that there is a diverse types of parental absence and each having a differential effects on the families the distinction is especially necessary between those disrupted that socially approved and those that are not”. These distinctions explain the economic situations and familiy relationship of caregivers visiting their children’s incarcerated parents. Several dimensions were discovered that placed these families at risk of: emotional stress, parenting strain, work-familiy conflict, financial strain, social stigma and structural parameters( eg., gender, race, and martial status). Other dimensions that intensify these families were the likehood of poverty, fragile parenting, declining family health, and the onset of changes in children’s behavior. • Poverty and homelessness. • The need for programs to enhance relationships. • Emotional and behavior problems with children. • Social stigma.

V. Conclusion:

In closing, recogizing the impact of incarceration on families has supported the needs for policy makers to recognize that there is a connection between crime, poverty, and families. More important, public polices that are in place to address these conditions seperately may inadvertently worsen the economic and crime-related problems. Finally, Finally, replacing the war on drugs with more training and job readiness and more support for community antipoverty efforts.