The Consequences of Contact with the Criminal Justice System for Health in the Transition to Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: A rapidly growing literature has documented the adverse social, economic and, recently, health impacts of experiencing incarceration in the United States. Despite the insights that this work has provided in consistently documenting the deleterious effects of incarceration, little is known about the specific timing of criminal justice contact and early health consequences during the transition from adolescence to adulthood-a critical period in the life course, particularly for the development of poor health. Previous literature on the role of incarceration has also been hampered by the difficulties of parsing out the influence that incarceration exerts on health from the social and economic confounding forces that are linked to both criminal justice contact and health. This paper addresses

SUBMITTER: Esposito MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5539981 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature