Finally, both incarcerated males and females display a much higher prevalence of mental illness than in the general population. The chapter discusses the criminalization of mental illness.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18750-7_6Lia Ahonen
The model suggests that addressing sentencing biases combined with interventions designed to disrupt the clustering of incarcerated individuals would reduce race-based incarceration gaps. Policy implications based on these findings are discussed.doi:10.1080/23774657.2016.1265472Hawdon, James...
In one moving segment, the film recounts how Davis met the daughters of an incarcerated Klan member at the airport and drove them to the prison so that they could visit their father. Eventually the family noticed that none of the man’s Klan colleagues were serving or loving them as much...
Lowenstein, director of the Electronic Policy Network, 7 percent of Black children- nearly 9 times more than white children- have an incarcerated parent. In Illinois, the prison population has grown by more than 60 percent since 1990. That growth has been fueled especially by Black admissions,...
Results Of the 7974 individuals included in our sample, 4023 (50.5%) were male, and 2992 (37.5%) identified as Black (median age, 18 [IQR, 17-20] years). During a median follow-up of 35 years (IQR, 33-37 years), 478 participants were incarcerated and 818 died. Unadjusted exposure ...
Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada Palgrave Macmillan, (2014), 10.1057/9781137388476 Google Scholar Ben-Moshe and Magaña, 2014 L. Ben-Moshe, S. Magaña An introduction to race, gender, and disability: Intersectionality, disability studies, and fami...
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Racial distinctions in the psychosocial histories of incarcerated youth. Psychol Serv. 2011;8:23–35. CrossRef Galanter CA, Patel VL. Medical decision making: a selective review for child psychiatrists and psychologists. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005;46:675–89. CrossRef Lewczyk ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People indicates that as of 2014, Blacks are incarcerated more than Whites at an alarming 5 to 1 rate, and that 34.8% of the entire United States' prison populations are comprised of Black inmates (naacp.org, 2017). Inner city crime ...