Assessment of US Federal Funding of Incarceration-Related Research, 1985 to 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The US leads the world in the raw number of incarcerated persons as well as the rate of incarceration, with detrimental effects on individual-, family-, community-, and population-level health; as such, federal research has a critical role in documenting and addressing the health-related impacts of the US criminal legal system. How often incarceration-related research is funded at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and US Department of Justice (DOJ) levels has a direct association with the public attention given to mass incarceration as well as the efficacy of strategies to mitigate negative effects and poor health related to incarceration.

Objective

To understand how many incarceration-related projects have been funded at

SUBMITTER: Boch SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972190 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature