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American Journal of Public Health, 2023 Public health researchers have directed increasing attention to structural racism and its implications for health equity. The conceptualization of racism as historically rooted in systems, structures, and institutions of US society has important ...
K. Blankenship +4 more
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International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2023 The scarce legal recognition of the gender identity of trans people is a contributing factor to the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the United States.
Federica Coppola
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Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics.
The Hastings center report, 2023 A growing body of literature has engaged with mass incarceration as a public health problem. This article reviews some of that literature, illustrating why and how bioethicists can and should engage with the problem of mass incarceration as a remediable ...
Sean A Valles
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Columbia Social Work Review, 2019 This chapter examines the campaign of mass incarceration. This is done with a view to understanding why and how it occurred, how it was related to the mass killings of the same period, and what its consequences were for those detained. It argues that the campaign had three defining features: it was a highly organized program that entailed detailed ...
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Planning beyond Mass Incarceration [PDF]
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2020 The policing and penal systems play an oversized role in shaping the built environment and budgets of cities, alongside the lives of urban residents. Law enforcement systems are also deeply inequitable with poor residents, and communities of color disproportionately harmed by the violences of the system.
Simpson, Sheryl-Ann +2 more
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"How America Disguises its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination" [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines how a delusive social imaginary of criminal-justice has underpinned contemporary U.S. mass incarceration and encouraged widespread indifference to its violence.
Stone-Mediatore, Shari
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medRxivBackground Tuberculosis incidence is increasing in Latin America, where the incarcerated population has nearly quadrupled since 1990. The full impact of incarceration on the tuberculosis epidemic, accounting for effects beyond prisons, has never been ...
Yiran E. Liu +14 more
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Human Cattle: Prison Overpopulation and the Political Economy of Mass Incarceration [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines the costs and impacts of prison overpopulation and mass incarceration on individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole.
Hanna, Peter
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Political Participation Amid Mass Incarceration
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2021 Contact with the carceral state—ranging from police stops to prison time—is a frequent experience in the United States, particularly in communities marginalized on the basis of race and class.
Ariel White
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