Keesha M Middlema
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keesha M Middlema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keesha M |
| FAMILY NAME | Middlema |
| SIGNATURE | MIDDLEMA K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4159-6958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The politics of oppression and power
Posttraumatic stress disorder and other mental health correlates in a predominantly Latino/Hispanic sample living with food insecurity
The compounding mental health consequences of experiencing FI, PTSD, and other psychopathology needs further investigation. Moreover, affordable and accessible treatment models are imperative to address the needs of this low-SES population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Prison Labor across the Carceral Continuum
Methodological Appendix
Sexual trauma uniquely associated with eating disorders
Objective: Extensive research supports the contention that trauma exposure is a nonspecific risk factor for the development of eating disorders (EDs). Limited research has investigated the relative association of diverse types of traumatic events with EDs in the same statistical model. In a recent exception, Breland et al. (2018) found that only sexual trauma predicted ED pathology among female veterans when both sexual trauma and combat exposure…
Convicted and Condemned
Felony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons' efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to…
Traumatic event exposure associated with increased food insecurity and eating disorder pathology
Objective The primary aim was to investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and eating disorders, which are nutrition-based public health problems, with traumatic event exposure in a low-income marginalized population. The study also investigated the association between traumatic event exposure, anxiety and weight stigma. Design The study used self-report surveys in a cross-sectional design. Setting Food pantries affiliated with the…
Race, Class, and Gender
Related Content: Ward and Menifield (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Robinson and Ramsey (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Pegues (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Ward (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Epp, Maynard-Moody, and Haider-Markel (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Davenport (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Eterno, Barrow, and Silverman (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: DeBenedetto (PAR March/A…
Clothing makes the man
Building on the wealth of prisoner reentry scholarship focusing on the process of transitioning home, this article examines clothing and reentry, and the complex interplay of how clothing has meaning for both the wearer and the viewer during this process. Prisoner reintegration research demonstrates that former prisoners are in need of a multitude of items, yet the purpose of clothing as a function in impression management is rarely considered. T…
Cognitive and emotional covariates of violence exposure among former prisoners
In this study, formerly incarcerated men ( N = 123) were assessed for their experiences with violence in the community as well as their current behavioral and mental health status (antisocial behavior and emotional distress). Participants also completed measures of two constructs theorized to moderate relations between exposure to violence and outcomes: cognitive beliefs supporting aggressive responding and negative emotional reactivity to witnes…
Listen to What I Say, Not How I Vote
Objectives. Are legislators' party affiliations or is district partisanship the greatest predictor of legislative support of the president? Do members of the U.S. House emphasize different policy positions when casting roll calls than when communicating their positions to constituents? We theorize that party is less important in legislators' district-oriented behavior than in roll-call voting. When casting roll calls, legislators are agents facin…
Representative Democracy
Journal Article Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents by Michael Mezey Get access Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents by Michael Mezey. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. 256 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $34.95. Keesha M. Middlemass Keesha M. Middlemass Rutgers University-Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, V…
The Three Presidencies? Legislative Position Taking in Support of the President on Domestic, Foreign, and Homeland Security Policies in the 107th Congress (2001-02)
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a new and salient issue dimension at the nexus of domestic and foreign policies emerged in U.S. politics: homeland security. Given this changed policy agenda in Washington, we suggest that there are no longer two presidencies, but instead three presidencies: the domestic policy presidency, the foreign policy presidency, and the homeland security presidency. We examine the three presidencies h…
Shaping Race Policy
(2006). Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective by Robert C. Lieberman. Souls: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 92-95
America at the Crossroads
The issue of race permeates the social policies in America, and this is clearly evident with an examination of the criminal justice system. Race is the focal point of policies that regulate and maintain the prisonindustrial complex and the collateral consequences of a felony conviction that follow imprisonment. Keywords: raceAmerican democracycollateral consequencessocial policy
Rehabilitated But Not Fit to Vote
Most states exclude felons from the electorate and through a series of interlocking laws, prevent them from casting ballots in most elections, even after former felons complete their entire sentence. Former felons are restricted from voting because of a patchwork of state laws commonly known as felon disenfranchisement laws. These laws differ from state to state but achieve the same end result—the systematic restriction of felons from the voting …
The Three Presidencies? Legislative Position Taking in Support of the President on Domestic, Foreign, and Homeland Security Policies in the 107th Congress (2001-02)
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a new and salient issue dimension at the nexus of domestic and foreign policies emerged in U.S. politics: homeland security. Given this changed policy agenda in Washington, we suggest that there are no longer two presidencies, but instead three presidencies: the domestic policy presidency, the foreign policy presidency, and the homeland security presidency. We examine the three presidencies h…
Clothing makes the man
Building on the wealth of prisoner reentry scholarship focusing on the process of transitioning home, this article examines clothing and reentry, and the complex interplay of how clothing has meaning for both the wearer and the viewer during this process. Prisoner reintegration research demonstrates that former prisoners are in need of a multitude of items, yet the purpose of clothing as a function in impression management is rarely considered. T…
Listen to What I Say, Not How I Vote
Objectives. Are legislators' party affiliations or is district partisanship the greatest predictor of legislative support of the president? Do members of the U.S. House emphasize different policy positions when casting roll calls than when communicating their positions to constituents? We theorize that party is less important in legislators' district-oriented behavior than in roll-call voting. When casting roll calls, legislators are agents facin…
Cognitive and emotional covariates of violence exposure among former prisoners
In this study, formerly incarcerated men ( N = 123) were assessed for their experiences with violence in the community as well as their current behavioral and mental health status (antisocial behavior and emotional distress). Participants also completed measures of two constructs theorized to moderate relations between exposure to violence and outcomes: cognitive beliefs supporting aggressive responding and negative emotional reactivity to witnes…
Shaping Race Policy
(2006). Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective by Robert C. Lieberman. Souls: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 92-95
America at the Crossroads
The issue of race permeates the social policies in America, and this is clearly evident with an examination of the criminal justice system. Race is the focal point of policies that regulate and maintain the prisonindustrial complex and the collateral consequences of a felony conviction that follow imprisonment. Keywords: raceAmerican democracycollateral consequencessocial policy
Rehabilitated But Not Fit to Vote
Most states exclude felons from the electorate and through a series of interlocking laws, prevent them from casting ballots in most elections, even after former felons complete their entire sentence. Former felons are restricted from voting because of a patchwork of state laws commonly known as felon disenfranchisement laws. These laws differ from state to state but achieve the same end result—the systematic restriction of felons from the voting …
The Three Presidencies? Legislative Position Taking in Support of the President on Domestic, Foreign, and Homeland Security Policies in the 107th Congress (2001-02)
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a new and salient issue dimension at the nexus of domestic and foreign policies emerged in U.S. politics: homeland security. Given this changed policy agenda in Washington, we suggest that there are no longer two presidencies, but instead three presidencies: the domestic policy presidency, the foreign policy presidency, and the homeland security presidency. We examine the three presidencies h…
Representative Democracy
Journal Article Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents by Michael Mezey Get access Representative Democracy: Legislators and Their Constituents by Michael Mezey. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008. 256 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $34.95. Keesha M. Middlemass Keesha M. Middlemass Rutgers University-Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, V…
Listen to What I Say, Not How I Vote
Objectives. Are legislators' party affiliations or is district partisanship the greatest predictor of legislative support of the president? Do members of the U.S. House emphasize different policy positions when casting roll calls than when communicating their positions to constituents? We theorize that party is less important in legislators' district-oriented behavior than in roll-call voting. When casting roll calls, legislators are agents facin…
Cognitive and emotional covariates of violence exposure among former prisoners
In this study, formerly incarcerated men ( N = 123) were assessed for their experiences with violence in the community as well as their current behavioral and mental health status (antisocial behavior and emotional distress). Participants also completed measures of two constructs theorized to moderate relations between exposure to violence and outcomes: cognitive beliefs supporting aggressive responding and negative emotional reactivity to witnes…
Clothing makes the man
Building on the wealth of prisoner reentry scholarship focusing on the process of transitioning home, this article examines clothing and reentry, and the complex interplay of how clothing has meaning for both the wearer and the viewer during this process. Prisoner reintegration research demonstrates that former prisoners are in need of a multitude of items, yet the purpose of clothing as a function in impression management is rarely considered. T…
Race, Class, and Gender
Related Content: Ward and Menifield (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Robinson and Ramsey (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Pegues (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Ward (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Epp, Maynard-Moody, and Haider-Markel (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Davenport (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: Eterno, Barrow, and Silverman (PAR March/April 2017) Related Content: DeBenedetto (PAR March/A…
Convicted and Condemned
Felony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons' efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to…
Traumatic event exposure associated with increased food insecurity and eating disorder pathology
Objective The primary aim was to investigate the association between food insecurity (FI) and eating disorders, which are nutrition-based public health problems, with traumatic event exposure in a low-income marginalized population. The study also investigated the association between traumatic event exposure, anxiety and weight stigma. Design The study used self-report surveys in a cross-sectional design. Setting Food pantries affiliated with the…
Methodological Appendix
Sexual trauma uniquely associated with eating disorders
Objective: Extensive research supports the contention that trauma exposure is a nonspecific risk factor for the development of eating disorders (EDs). Limited research has investigated the relative association of diverse types of traumatic events with EDs in the same statistical model. In a recent exception, Breland et al. (2018) found that only sexual trauma predicted ED pathology among female veterans when both sexual trauma and combat exposure…
Posttraumatic stress disorder and other mental health correlates in a predominantly Latino/Hispanic sample living with food insecurity
The compounding mental health consequences of experiencing FI, PTSD, and other psychopathology needs further investigation. Moreover, affordable and accessible treatment models are imperative to address the needs of this low-SES population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Prison Labor across the Carceral Continuum
The politics of oppression and power
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