Criminal punishment and violent injury in Minnesota.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Violence is one of the leading causes of injury and death in the United States. One-way society attempts to eliminate violence is through criminal punishment. Yet, in many contexts, punishment fails to reduce violence and may cause other harms. Current research on violence often suffers from same-source bias which can produce spurious associations. This study assesses the associations of different forms of criminal punishment (monetary sanctions, incarceration, and probation) with violent injuries in two unique datasets.

Methods

This study examines a unique combination of hospital discharge data and court administrative data, two Minnesota county-level data sources. First, we assess the spatial distribution of the three criminal punishment variables and two violen

SUBMITTER: Santaularia NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7958430 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature