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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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Unintended Consequences: Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Child School Readiness and Later Special Education Placement [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2014 Though sociologists have examined how mass incarceration affects stratification, remarkably little is known about how it shapes educational disparities. Analyzing the Fragile Families Study and its rich paternal incarceration data, I ask whether black and
Anna R Haskins
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Sociological Science, 2023 Children's expectations and aspirations have a substantial effect on a variety of life course outcomes, including their health, education, and earnings.
Garrett Baker
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The Mass Incarceration of Black Women in Brazil
e-cadernos ces, 2022 Colonial empires establish their system of power based on white male supremacy across all spheres of society. In this process, incarceration systems were – and can still be – a key element in the preservation of racial, class, and gender hierarchies.
Laura Marquesan Eschberger
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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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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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