Session Submission Summary

Mental Health Consequences of Criminal Legal System Contact Over the Life Course

Fri, Nov 14, 9:30 to 10:50am, Supreme Court - M4

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Criminal legal system contact is associated with a variety of life course detriments concerning both subsequent offending and outcomes in other life domains. The papers in this panel examine how early touch points with the system may hold long term consequences for health, how legal system decision points influence subsequent offending, and how variation in system contact (treatment versus traditional) may result in divergent outcomes.

Sub Unit

Individual Presentations

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology (DLC)