Policy Determinants of Inequitable Exposure to the Criminal Legal System and Their Health Consequences Among Young People.

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      Publisher: American Public Health Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1254074 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-0048 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00900036 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Public Health Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Washington, DC : American Public Health Association
      Original Publication: New York [etc.]
    • Subject Terms:
      Criminal Law*/legislation & jurisprudence ; Criminal Law*/standards ; Racism*; Adolescent ; Adult ; Black People ; Humans ; Public Health ; Socioeconomic Factors ; United States ; Young Adult
    • Abstract:
      Criminalizing young people, particularly Black- and Brown-identified young people, has increasingly been a feature of US rhetoric, policies, and practices. Thus, the domains in which young people are exposed to the legal system have continued to expand, encompassing their communities, schools, and homes. Importantly, public health researchers have begun exploring links between legal system exposure and health, although this literature is primarily focused at the interpersonal level and assesses associations within a single domain or in adulthood.Using critical race theory and ecosocial theory of disease distribution, we identified potential policy-level determinants of criminalization and briefly summarized the literature on downstream health outcomes among young people. Our analysis suggests that policy decisions may facilitate the targeting of structurally marginalized young people across domains.Future research should (1) position these legislative decisions as primary exposures of interest to understand their association with health among young people and inform institutional-level intervention, (2) measure the totality of exposure to the criminal legal system across domains, and (3) use theory to examine the complex ways racism operates institutionally to shape inequitable distributions of associated health outcomes.
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    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20200123 Date Completed: 20200619 Latest Revision: 20240328
    • Publication Date:
      20240329
    • Accession Number:
      PMC6987944
    • Accession Number:
      10.2105/AJPH.2019.305440
    • Accession Number:
      31967887