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RACE AND JUSTICE
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 324-345出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2153368721998053
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race; health disparity; incarceration; poor health; self-rated health
This study examines the impact of incarceration on individual health and finds that Black individuals experience more substantial health declines than White individuals after being incarcerated, with Black males being particularly affected. The findings contribute to the understanding of the racialized and negative health consequences of incarceration.
Incarceration is a health damaging experience that disproportionately impacts Black Americans. Although existing research has explored broader racial disparities in the health consequences of imprisonment, little research has examined within-individual changes in health declines following incarceration. Accordingly, in this study, we examine whether the negative health effects of incarceration are more pronounced for Black versus White individuals. Data from Waves I through IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and hierarchical generalized linear models (HGLM) are used to estimate within-person changes to self-rated health following first incarceration (N = 23,627 person-waves) for non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals. Findings indicate that Black respondents reported within-person health declines that were more substantial than those of Whites after first incarceration. Additional analyses revealed that these race differences were more pronounced among Black males. Taken together, this study adds to the literature highlighting the racialized and negative health impacts of incarceration. Efforts to reduce imprisonment and increase access to quality health care in Black communities are needed.
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