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Cultural Competence as Whiteness in Health and Social Care
Critical Whiteness studies seek to understand ways people racialized as White collectively maintain racist systems even whilst professing...
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Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort
Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns...
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No health without access: using a retrospective cohort to model a care continuum for people released from prison at an urban, safety net health system
BackgroundRelease from prison is characterized by discontinuity of healthcare services and results in poor health outcomes, including an increase in...
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Life Course Statuses of Justice-Involved Youth Transitioning to Adulthood: Differences and Change in Offending and Mental Health
Compared to their peers, youth in the juvenile justice system have greater prevalence of mental health problems and a higher likelihood of...
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Residentially-Placed Youth and the Adverse Childhood Experiences-Recidivism Relationship: Considering Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences
Prior research has established a relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and juvenile justice-related outcomes, including...
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Confronting Whiteness in Developmental Psychology: Impacts on Ethnic Minority Families in the Australian Child Welfare System
This chapter explores the dominance of Western theories of child development and its impact on child welfare practices for ethnic minority families...
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Whiteness in Aged Care and Death Management
In the Western world, late-stage capitalist neoliberalism in the form of corporate neo-colonization, in combination with the legacy of...
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Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Ethnic Minority Communities
Child sexual abuse (CSA) happens in all communities—however, victims and survivors from ethnic minority communities face particular barriers to...
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A Feminist Ethics of Care Approach to De-escalation in Policing
In response to the death of George Floyd, many activists have demanded that police agencies require that de-escalation be used as the principal...
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How do Racial and Ethnic Disparities Emerge in the Use of Restrictive Housing for Prison Rule Violations?
ObjectivesIn light of empirical findings suggesting no substantive main effects of an incarcerated person’s (IP’s) race or ethnicity on the odds of...
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The health effects of gendered and devalued work: health outcomes of incarcerated women engaging in sex work and care/service work
BackgroundWomen with a history of incarceration are often engaged in highly gendered work, either sex work or low-wage care/service work jobs. While...
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Mental Health Courts
Issues of mental health and mental illness inform the current crisis in the criminal justice system and inspire calls for reform. Specialized mental...
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The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences
PurposeTwo important issues constrain the neighborhood effects literature. First, most prior research examining neighborhood effects on aggression...
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Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health
Immigration is sometimes associated with crime and delinquency in the mind of the public, and it is often assumed that individuals not born in the...
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Understanding Abuse, Mental Health, and Substance Use: The Role of Victimization in a Jail Population
The role of victimization in criminal behavior has been researched previously, particularly in justice-involved youth and prison samples. The...
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The Deleterious Health Consequences of COVID in United States Prisons
By January 2024, the COVID-19 pandemic claimed more than 1.1 million deaths in the United States (U.S.). People in prison are particularly vulnerable...
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Healthcare in a pure gatekee** system: utilization of primary, mental and emergency care in the prison population over time
BackgroundThis study investigates the prisoner and prison-level factors associated with healthcare utilization (HCU) and the dynamic effects of...
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Forecasting the Racial and Ethnic Impacts of ‘Race-Neutral’ Legislation through Researcher and Policymaker Partnerships
This article describes a unique researcher and policymaker partnership aimed at assessing the racial and ethnic impact of proposed criminal justice...
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Health
This chapter opens with a discussion by Dr. Locust on despair, trauma, and suicide as well as a discussion of post-colonization stress disorder. This...