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Injustices in Black Maternal Health: A Call for Different Research Questions, Orientations, and Methodologies

open access: yesFrontiers 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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“See Me as Human:” Reflections on an Experiential Curriculum Led by People With Lived Experience of Incarceration

open access: yesJournal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Improving physical and mental healthcare delivery to incarcerated patients and people with carceral histories provides an opportunity to improve health equity more broadly.
Tiheba Bain   +9 more
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The Rhetoric of Mass Incarceration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Professor David Coogan teaches rhetorical theory and criticism and composition, as well as service learning, for the VCU Department of English. For the last ten years, he has also taught and collaborated with writers in the Richmond City Jail, in a ...
Coogan, David, Farley, Kevin
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The Effect of Mass Incarceration on Criminality in Colombia

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
This study surveyed the literature on the expected and unexpected effects of incarceration before (deterrence), during (incapacitation), and after (after-effects) prison confinement occurs, through a selective search that favored the analysis of studies ...
José Fernando Flórez
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Review of "Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America" by Brett Story (University of Minnesota Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2020
Brett Story’s Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America offers a timely reflection on the role of mass incarceration in remaking the neoliberal contours of contemporary U.S. culture.
Marcia Klotz
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Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
For the first time in forty years, the national incarceration rate is flattening out, even falling in state prisons. For the first time in three decades, the number of adults under any kind of correctional supervision—in prison or jail or on probation or
Cole, David
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The Racial Oppression in America’s Mass Incarceration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper seeks to expose the racial oppression embedded within the United States\u27 practice of mass incarceration and will provide recommendations to ameliorate this discriminatory practice that harshly and inequitably impacts people of color.
Sorrentino, Marcella
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How New York City Reduced Mass Incarceration: A Model for Change? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this report, leading criminologists examine the connection between New York City's shift in policing strategies and the dramatic decrease in the City's incarcerated and correctional ...
James Austin, Michael P. Jacobson
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A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
Despite the strong relationship between the rise in mass incarceration over the last forty years and racial inequality in employment and wages, few studies have examined the long-term consequences and spillover effects of criminal justice contact on the ...
Bryan L. Sykes, Michelle Maroto
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Master of Public Health in Health Equity and Criminal Justice: Student and Alumni Feedback on the Development of a New Master of Public Health Concentration

open access: yesHealth Equity, 2022
Purpose: To describe Master of Public Health (MPH) student and alumni interest in a new Health Equity and Criminal Justice (HECJ) concentration, highlight their personal experiences with mass incarceration, and summarize their input on developing the ...
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