War Zone Round 2: Exploring Incarceration Rates in the United States by Race within the Veteran GroupMartinez, WhitneyMartinez, Whitney
The current incarceration system has been criticized for its focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. With the United States having the highest incarceration rate in the world, many experts believe it is time to reform the system. In this blog post, we will explore the current state of...
Even more, race-ethnicity and gender interact to produce compounding risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, which are robust predictors of suicide attempts [11]: Black adolescent girls have the highest rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors overall and demonstrated the sharpest rise in suicide ...
veterans collected in December 2022 and January 2023. Multiple Poisson is used to assess the relationship between family member incarceration and a loneliness index, and multinomial logistic regression was used to estimate the relationship with specific constructs in the loneliness index. The results ...
“unlikely to have been large.” The researchers conclude “the United States has gone far past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by social benefits and has reached a level where these high rates of incarceration themselves constitute a source of injustice and ...
I began researching more and found a strong correlation between the absence of fathers in the home and the incarceration rates among African American and Hispanic communities. It became clear to me that the real issue wasn’t about race but the lack of male role models in these communities. ...
Results of weighted models are consistent with those presented in the main text and available upon request. The prevalence of temporary housing residence I observe in the NLSY97 (15.2% by 2017 among respondents who have been incarcerated for a felony) is in keeping with rates of homelessness ...
s arrest prior to parental jail incarceration. 228 individuals in 76 triads (incarcerated parents, children, at-home caregivers) were enrolled from four jails in two states. Jailed parents and caregivers reported on whether the child witnessed the parent’s arrest or crime. Children’s caregivers ...
That is, immigrants appear to be less crime-prone than the native-born population [3,4], while communities with larger foreign-born populations tend to have equivalent or lower rates of crime than those experiencing less immigration [5], regardless of where immigrants arrive from [6]. However...
Cancer is a harrowing journey for anyone, but for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated patients like Cruz, receiving care for the life-altering disease presents extra challenges. The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with nearly 2 million people in the crimina...