Health Criminology Panel: Social-Ecological Consequences of Criminal Legal System Involvement for Health

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Involvement with the criminal legal system has consequences that shape health across multiple social-ecological levels. In this panel, we leverage multiple methods and multiple disciplinary perspectives to investigate examples of how incarceration shapes individual health, the health of romantic partners of prison incarcerated men and children of incarcerated fathers, and other socio-structural determinants in the community that shape health status. The first paper examines how the health toll of incarceration is exacerbated by natural disaster through interviews with individuals who were incarcerated during natural disasters in Houston, Texas. The second paper focuses on depressive symptomology across three waves of survey data among women with incarcerated partners. The third uses secondary data analysis approaches to investigate how paternal incarceration shapes healthcare utilization and health behaviors among adolescents. Finally, the fourth paper, uses linked governmental data to explore how correlates of incarceration in the community (e.g., the collateral consequences often experienced in post-release) impact the risk of death. Together, these studies demonstrate the broad and wide-ranging consequences of criminal legal involvement for health and position the criminal legal system as an important sociostructural determinant of health.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 51. Collateral Consequences of Incarceration

Individual Presentations

• “You feel like you going to die:” The Intersection of Mass Incarceration and Climate Disasters - Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

• Depressive Symptomatology Among Women with Incarcerated Partners - Katherine Durante, University of Utah

• Same Behaviors, Different Access: How Paternal Incarceration Shapes Adolescents’ Health Care Utilization and Health Behaviors - Erin Josephine McCauley, University of California, San Francisco

• Assessing the impact of incarceration and its socio-structural correlates on post-release risk of death - Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Duke University

Discussant

• Alexander Roehrkasse, Butler University