DC CFAR investigator, Kim Blankenship, PhD, along with her colleagues has published an article in Social Science & Medicine entitled, "Mass incarceration, race inequality, and health: Expanding concepts and assessing impacts on well-being".
The article discusses a study that examined how individuals experience with mass incarceration differs by race, and the impacts of mass incarceration on measures of well-being that are major social determinants of health. The authors found that there were important differences in the criminal justice system experiences and histories by race, with Blacks having a higher average number of adult incarcerations compared to whites, a longer first sentence, and more likely to be imprisoned as a juvenile and spend time in an adult facility as a juvenile. Additionally, they found that these differences in incarceration experiences were also associated with differences by race in reports of the impact of involvement in the criminal justice system.
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