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3 Effects of Criminal Justice Involvement on Individuals, Families, and Communities
Pages 15-24

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... It has been argued that the spouses, partners, and children of incarcerated people are likely to face a unique set of financial and emotional challenges that can adversely affect familial relationships. Community dynamics may also play a role: the quality of the environment and the degree of resource accessibility ultimately determine the level of support available to families of incarcerated people and to the people themselves when they reenter society.
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From page 16...
... While women only constituted 7 percent of the incarcerated population, they are a growing minority and an important one because almost two-thirds of them are mothers of minor children. While there is still much to be learned about the female incarceration population, recent data from the Fragile Families Study (see Chapter 7)
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From page 17...
... Foster and Hagan discussed findings from Add Health regarding the effects of parental incarceration on economic and food security, receipt of medical services, and college access and completion rates for young adults in waves III and IV of the study (Hagan and Foster, 2015)
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From page 18...
... There was a negative association between parental incarceration and the receipt of health care services by young adults: fewer young adults received medical services when needed if they had an incarcerated parent, and the effect was stronger for young adults with incarcerated mothers. Multivariate analysis showed that maternal incarceration significantly reduced the odds of receiving medical care when needed, even after controlling for other covariates.
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From page 19...
... Students whose mothers were not incarcerated but attended schools with a 10 percent rate of maternal incarceration had a 25 percent likelihood of college graduation. Hagan and Foster concluded their presentation by emphasizing the societal benefits of government investment in measuring the effects of paternal incarceration on health outcomes.
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From page 20...
... Customs and Immigration Enforcement agency ruled that his failure to register warranted punitive action, and Alex is now facing deportation. Uggen emphasized again that, while some sanctions are merited and essential for public safety, others are capturing a large number of people who may not pose any threat.
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From page 21...
... From a community standpoint, Uggen and some colleagues tested the hypothesis that states with higher incarceration rates would have strong global effects on disease rates. They found that a percentage point increase in male ex-prisoners led to a 7-17 percent increase in death from HIV/AIDS among non-incarcerated men.
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From page 22...
... DISCUSSION John Laub (University of Maryland) asked Hagan and Foster whether wave V of Add Health will include questions on the Affordable Care Act, which would enable researchers to see the benefits of the expansion of health care coverage to previously uninsured populations.
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From page 23...
... In response, Ingrid Binswanger (Kaiser Permanente Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine) said that medical records in state and county criminal justice agencies are stored centrally and mostly are not digitized, and she emphasized the need for electronic health records in the correctional health system.
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From page 24...
... Such data gaps hinder the ability to gather information on the odds and prevalence of diseases for criminal justice involved populations. Wang stressed the need for indicators or variables that simultaneously capture criminal justice involvement and objective measures of health.
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