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Fernandes, April |
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How Far Up the River? Criminal Justice Contact and Health Outcomes Social Currents 7,1 (February 2020): 29-45. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496519870216 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Arrests; Criminal Justice System; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Incarceration/Jail Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research has shown negative health outcomes from felony imprisonment. The conditions that create and exacerbate physical and mental health outcomes on the felony side--exposure to disease, lack of health care, and stress--are reflected in other less severe forms of criminal justice contact. Given that the low-level contact has grown along with prison incarceration, the health effects of less severe forms of criminal justice contact should be investigated. Using 10 waves from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 ([NLSY97), this project explores the impact on self-reported physical and mental health from the continuum of contact, namely, an arrest, conviction, and jail sentence. The results show that low-level forms of contact negatively affect both physical and mental health throughout the continuum of contact. The role of the type of conviction is investigated, providing a more nuanced understanding of how points of contact operate on essential outcomes such as physical and mental health. |
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Fernandes, April. "How Far Up the River? Criminal Justice Contact and Health Outcomes." Social Currents 7,1 (February 2020): 29-45.
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Leibbrand, Christine |
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Unequal Opportunity? Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Returns to Internal U.S. Migration Social Currents 7,1 (1 February 2020): 46-70. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496519869339 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Migration; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Internal U.S. migration plays an important role in increasing individuals' access to economic and social opportunities. At the same time, race, ethnicity, and gender have frequently shaped the opportunities and obstacles individuals face. It is therefore likely that the returns to internal migration are also shaped by race, ethnicity, and gender, though we have relatively little knowledge of whether this is the case for contemporary internal U.S. migration. To explore this possibility, I use restricted, geocoded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data from 1979 to 2012. I find that white men gain the most economically from migrating, relative to black and Latino men. For women, migration is associated with stable or narrower racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes, with Latina women experiencing the largest economic benefits associated with migration and with black and white women exhibiting comparable economic returns to migration. Together, these findings indicate that migration may maintain or even narrow racial/ethnic disparities in economic outcomes among women, but widen them among men. |
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Leibbrand, Christine. "Unequal Opportunity? Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Returns to Internal U.S. Migration." Social Currents 7,1 (1 February 2020): 46-70.
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Warner, Cody Houle, Jason N. Kaiser, Joshua |
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Criminal Justice Contact and Indebtedness in Young Adulthood: Investigating the Potential Role of State-level Hidden Sentences Social Currents published online (3 December 2020): DOI: 10.1177/2329496520974018. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496520974018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Criminal Justice System; Debt/Borrowing; Geocoded Data; Incarceration/Jail; State-Level Data/Policy Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Contact with the American criminal justice system is associated with socioeconomic disadvantage and financial insecurity, but little research has explored the link between criminal justice contact and indebtedness. In this study, we ask whether contact in young adulthood is associated with access to credit and unsecured debt burdens. We also focus on state-level policies that operate alongside official punishments and restrict citizenship and societal participation among the justice-involved (termed hidden sentences), and ask whether such policies moderate the association between criminal justice contact and indebtedness. We find that criminal justice contact, especially incarceration, is associated with reduced access to unsecured credit and greater absolute and relative debt burdens. These associations are strongest for individuals residing in states with more onerous hidden sentence regimes. We argue that indebtedness is a key socioeconomic consequence of criminal justice contact and that hidden sentences may exacerbate these consequences. |
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Warner, Cody, Jason N. Houle and Joshua Kaiser. "Criminal Justice Contact and Indebtedness in Young Adulthood: Investigating the Potential Role of State-level Hidden Sentences." Social Currents published online (3 December 2020): DOI: 10.1177/2329496520974018.
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