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Repairing the Breach: Faith-Based Community Organizing to Dismantle Mass Incarceration
Religions, 2019 Public awareness of the injustices of mass incarceration has grown significantly over the last decade. Many people have learned about mass incarceration in church contexts through book groups, study campaigns, and denominational statements.
Amy Levad
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Dual Punishment: Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children
Columbia Social Work Review, 2012 Children with incarcerated parents are among the most at-risk populations in the United States. The recent trend toward mass incarceration in the United States, especially of women, has harmful implications for children because often their primary ...
Julie Smyth
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 The United States has experienced a 4-fold increase in jail and prison populations over the last 40 years, disproportionately burdening African American and Hispanic/Latinx communities.
Alexandra L. Hernandez +6 more
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Expanding carceral geographies: challenging mass incarceration and creating a "community orientation" towards juvenile delinquency [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2014 Increasingly, governments are adopting alternative strategies to mass incarceration and drawing on the rhetoric of community to create softer and less restrictive sanctions.
E. Brown
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SSM: Population Health, 2019 A collateral consequence of mass incarceration in the United States is its negative effects on population health. Using data from 2015, this study examines the relationship between incarceration rates and population health for a national sample of U.S ...
Robert R. Weidner, Jennifer Schultz
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 For decades, Black mothers have been most likely to suffer the worst outcomes of pregnancy, including death. Even though traditional individual level risk factors do not explain racial inequities in maternal morbidity, most studies identify Black race as
Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson
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Evangelist of Incarceration? Billy Graham as Symbol for the Religious Problem of Mass Incarceration
Black Theology Papers Project, 2019 This paper looks at Billy Graham as a symbol for a platonized Christianity that gives birth to and maintains the social problem of mass incarceration.
Bryson White
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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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Palliative care & the injustice of mass incarceration
Witness, 2019 Due to the criminalization of marginalized people, many markers of social disadvantage are overrepresented among prisoners. With an aging population, end of life in prison thus becomes a social justice issue that nurses must contend with, engaging with ...
Helen Hudson +2 more
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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
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