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Kristin Turney is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Social Sciences, Psychology, and Health Professions. A significant portion of Turney's work is situated within subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Demography.

Their research topics focus broadly on social and health-related issues, including:

  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Turney has contributed to various journals and has been published frequently in:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family (9 publications)
  • Criminology (3 publications)
  • Social Forces (3 publications)
  • Children and Youth Services Review (2 publications)
  • SSM - Mental Health (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Turney has authored a book titled Beyond Bars, published by Policy Press in 2023.

Notable recent papers include:

  • A Developmental Perspective on Children With Incarcerated Parents (2020), published in Child Development Perspectives
  • Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents Exposed to Personal and Vicarious Police Contact (2020), published in Society and Mental Health
  • Police Contact and Future Orientation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study (2021), published in Criminology
  • Cumulative Adverse Childhood Experiences and Children's Health (2020), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Chains of Adversity: The Time-Varying Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Adolescent Behavior (2021), published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Frequent collaborators in Turney's research include Dylan B. Jackson, Naomi F. Sugie, Alexander Testa, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, and Daniela Kaiser. These coauthors have contributed to multiple projects, with collaboration counts ranging from four to eight publications each.

Best Publications

  • Barriers to School Involvement: Are Immigrant Parents Disadvantaged?

    Kristin Turney;Grace Kao

  • Stress proliferation across generations? Examining the relationship between parental incarceration and childhood health.

    Kristin Turney

  • Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers:

    Christopher Wildeman;Jason Schnittker;Kristin Turney

  • Mental and Physical Health of Children in Foster Care

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Beyond Incarceration: Criminal Justice Contact and Mental Health:

    Naomi F. Sugie;Kristin Turney

  • Redefining Relationships: Explaining the Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Positive, Negative, or Null? The Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Children’s Behavioral Problems

    Christopher Wildeman;Kristin Turney

  • Falling Behind? Children's Early Grade Retention after Paternal Incarceration.

    Kristin Turney;Anna R. Haskins

  • As fathers and felons: explaining the effects of current and recent incarceration on major depression.

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman;Jason Schnittker

  • Adverse childhood experiences among children placed in and adopted from foster care: Evidence from a nationally representative survey.

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Detrimental for Some? Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Child Wellbeing

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Parental Incarceration and Child Health in the United States.

    Christopher Wildeman;Alyssa W Goldman;Kristin Turney

  • Those They Leave Behind: Paternal Incarceration and Maternal Instrumental Support

    Kristin Turney;Jason Schnittker;Christopher Wildeman

  • The Unequal Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children.

    Kristin Turney

  • The Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Maternal Neglect and Harsh Parenting

    Kristin Turney

  • Parental Incarceration and Children's Wellbeing

    Kristin Turney;Rebecca Goodsell

  • Hopelessly Devoted? Relationship Quality During and After Incarceration

    Kristin Turney

  • Neighborhood Disadvantage, Residential Stability, and Perceptions of Instrumental Support Among New Mothers:

    Kristin Turney;Kristen Harknett

  • Pathways of disadvantage: Explaining the relationship between maternal depression and children's problem behaviors.

    Kristin Turney

  • Labored love: Examining the link between maternal depression and parenting behaviors

    Kristin Turney

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