Health and criminal justice system involvement among African American siblings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health disparities between African Americans and Whites have persisted in the United States. Researchers have recently hypothesized that the relatively poor health of African Americans may be caused, in part, by African American overrepresentation in the criminal justice system.

Objectives

To test the hypothesis that criminal justice system involvement is associated with poor health and greater health risk when controlling for unobserved family factors through a discordant sibling design.

Methods

Subjects were drawn from the Carolina African American Twin Study of Aging (CAATSA). Criminal conviction records were extracted from North Carolina's Department of Public Safety. Six measures of health and one measure of health risk were analyzed. The health of con

SUBMITTER: Beckley AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6369245 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature