Youth Surveillance, Mental Health, and Health Disparities among Urban Teens and Young Adults

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Two salient features of American surveillance, within and beyond the criminal legal system, are its breadth and its racially disproportionate reach. A growing literature documents that even system involvement that does not lead to formal legal processing (e.g., non-arrest police contact, and exclusionary school discipline), can impose significant health and social consequences throughout the life course. In this panel four scholars examine the health and behavioral consequences of exposure to aggressive policing and school discipline among urban-born youth, all using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), a national study that follows a birth cohort of urban-born youth into early adulthood. Keoni Morris and colleagues examine trajectories of aggressive behavior across the life course and the role of police contact, along with other adverse childhood experiences, in shaping these trajectories. P’trice Jones and Collin Perryman examine the mental health consequences of adolescent-police contact with particular attention to effects on Black youth, Jones focusing on Black girls, and Perryman on Black boys. Finally, Amanda Geller examines the mental health consequences of environmental exposure to aggressive policing, using new data that matches the FFCWS to national data on fatal police violence. Wade Jacobsen will provide discussant’s comments.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 55. Inequality and Justice

Individual Presentations

• Ethnoracial and Gender Disparities in Policing among Youth with Different Aggression Patterns - James Keoni Morris, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Department of Mental Health; Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, University of Akron; Radhika Raghunathan, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Department of Mental Health; Amanda Geller, University of California, Irvine; Rebecca L. Fix, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

• The Unique Experience of Black Women and Girls in Police Contact - P'trice Jones, University of California, Irvine

• Aggressive Policing as an Individual and Environmental Social Determinant of Health among Urban Adolescents - Amanda Geller, University of California, Irvine; Kariar Al-Naiem, University of California, Irvine; Cristian Apolinar, University of California, Irvine; Kristin Catena, Princeton University; P'trice Jones, University of California, Irvine; Panpan Yang, Princeton University

• Identifying the Depressive Profiles of Adolescent Black Boys who have been School Policed and Disciplined. - Collin Perryman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Discussant

• Wade C. Jacobsen, University of Maryland