Dylan B Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 231706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan B Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4726-6573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 121 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 120 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Cambridge Handbook of Ethnic and Racial Discrimination and Youth Development
How is ethnic and racial discrimination impacting our young people? Scholars around the world have found that discriminatory interactions of this nature have detrimental impacts on youth and their development. In this handbook, the world's leading experts on this topic examine the current state of the science, presenting current research and tracing foundational theories, empirical findings, multilevel methods, and intervention strategies for chi…
Reluctance to Contact Crisis Services Among Youth Who Carry Handguns
Suicide is a leading cause of death among US adolescents, with firearms being a common means of youth suicide. As crisis services have expanded to include digital modalities (e.g., text; online chat), we still know little about the willingness of youth who carry firearms to contact crisis services. The present study examines whether public middle and high school students in Florida who carried handguns reported greater reluctance to contact crisi…
Further Exploring the Relationship Between Virtual Socializing and Adolescent Vaping Activity
Previous research suggests that virtual socializing is associated with adolescent substance use and vaping activity. However, at present, very little research has explored the functional form of this relationship. This study extends the current research by testing for nonlinearity in the relationship between virtual socializing and adolescent vaping activity using data from the 2018 eighth and tenth grade cohorts of Monitoring the Future (MTF). O…
Exclusionary School Discipline During Childhood and Adolescent Delinquency
Previous research links school suspension with delinquency and arrest. The majority of the research in this area, however, has primarily focused on suspensions in adolescence and has not examined the role of exclusionary discipline at younger ages. This study addresses this gap in the literature by examining associations between age of first suspension and delinquency in a representative sample of Florida adolescents. Accordingly, this study empl…
A Shared Vision of Positive Policing from Black Young People and Police
In the current study, we examined perceptions and features of positive police-youth encounters, both enforcement and non-enforcement in nature, between Black young people and sworn police personnel from a single large US metropolitan city. Data were collected from young people during individual interviews ( N = 35) and from sworn police personnel within focus group discussions ( N = 10 focus group discussions, 50 total personnel). We used an indu…
Do Anti-immigration Rhetoric and Policy Impact Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence To Police Among Latina/e Survivors in the United States? A Comparative Interrupted Time Series Study
Dental Insurance Status Among Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults
Formerly incarcerated individuals have poorer oral health and less frequent dental care utilization than the general population. However, prior work has overlooked the relationship between prior incarceration and disparities in dental insurance coverage. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 11,638), findings from multiple logistic regression analyses demonstrate that formerly incarcerated older adults are significantly less likely…
Understanding variation in juvenile life without parole legislation following Miller
Research Summary Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana restricted states’ ability to impose life without parole for youth under age 18 (henceforth JLWOP). Since Miller , 46 pieces of legislation across 34 states and the District of Columbia have altered JLWOP sentencing policies. The current study provides the first comprehensive and scientific review of this legislation. Using policy surveillance as a methodological guide, we found that …
Family justice involvement in evidence-based home visiting services
Steps Toward Transformation
It is essential to understand community perspectives about how to promote safe and equitable interactions between Black young people and police. We conducted individual interviews with 35 Black young people (15–22 years) and 10 focus group discussions with 50 police representing multiple ranks/roles. Findings indicated that both young people and police view four policing practices as essential: respect, communication skills, empathy/understanding…
Patterns of Vicarious Police Contact and Youths’ Stress and Attitudes About the Police
Community Firearm Violence and Dental Care Use in Middle Adulthood
Disclosure of direct and witnessed police stops among Black youth in Baltimore City, Maryland
Youth-police contact is increasingly acknowledged as a stressor and a racialized adverse childhood experience that can undermine youths' mental health. There is limited empirical research, however, on youths' disclosure of police stops to trusted others and how disclosure might mitigate adverse mental health responses to police stops. The present study examines patterns of disclosure following direct and witnessed police stops and their implicati…
Prior incarceration and food insecurity trajectories through older adulthood
INTRODUCTION: Prior cross-sectional research has identified incarceration as a risk factor for food insecurity across the life course. However, there is a lack of longitudinal studies on the relationship between prior incarceration and food insecurity over time. METHODS: This study uses biennial data across 10 time points from the Health and Retirement Study (years 2012-2022) to examine the association between prior incarceration and longitudinal…
Race disparities in dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood in the USA
BACKGROUND: This study examines the longitudinal patterns of dental care use from adolescence to middle adulthood (ages 11-43) and investigates racial and ethnic disparities in these patterns. METHODS: Data from Waves I through V of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1993-2018; ages 11-43). Semiparametric group-based trajectory model identified distinct dental care use trajectories. Multinomial logistic regression was …
Self-Directed Violence Among Black Young Adults with Negative Police Experiences
Seeking Justice
Although adult allies often play crucial roles in mentoring and supporting young people who are activists, there remain gaps in our understanding of how community leaders interpret youth activism and the nature of organizational supports they provide for Black young people. We aimed to clarify perceptions about young people's involvement in social activism surrounding policing among community leaders who serve Black young people (ages 12–21) in B…
When youth record police
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Truancy in High School
Previous research links exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with a host of negative outcomes, including negative school outcomes. For instance, some studies link exposure to ACEs with weak school attachment, school misbehavior, suspension, negative academic performance, and absenteeism. The current study extends the previous literature by examining the association between exposure to ACEs and truancy using self-reports from a represe…
Social Media Use and Alcohol Sipping in Early Adolescents
Background Social media can influence alcohol initiation behaviors such as sipping, which can lead to future adverse alcohol-related outcomes. Few studies have examined the role of problematic social media use, characterized by addiction, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, and relapse, especially in early adolescence.Objective To examine the prospective association between social media use and sipping alcohol in a nationwide samp…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Social Service Majors
This study examined how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) shape selection of college majors that commonly lead to social service jobs. Using a sample of 722 college students, this study explored differences in total ACEs and prevalence of specific ACEs among students studying social work, criminology, and human services compared with students in a non-social science field and those in other social science majors. Compared with students reporti…
The Long Arm of Maternal Incarceration
Great Expectations
Juvenile probation can be a critical inflection point. As such, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners are interested in enhancing youths’ success on probation, especially pertaining to reducing recidivism and promoting their success in education and employment. Informed by the risk–need–responsivity framework, the present study examined how theoretically derived familial/peer (e.g., social bonds, parental monitoring), societal/community (e…
Relationships Between Violent Sexual Victimization and Muscle‐Building Exercise among Adolescents from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the association between violent sexual victimization and muscle-building exercise among adolescents. METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the 2019 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (N = 8408) were analyzed. Two indicators of non-dating-related sexual violence (lifetime, past 12 months), along with one indicator of adolescent sexual violence (past 12 months), were assessed. Days of muscle-building in the…
Sex Work and Educational Mobility
The influence of neuropsychological deficits in early childhood on low self-control and misconduct through early adolescence
The policing paradox
Negative interactions with the legal system can inform adolescents' relationships with schools. The present daily-diary study examined 13,545 daily survey assessments from 387 adolescents (M age = 13-14; 40% male; 32% Black, 50% White, and 18% Other ethnic-racial minority) across 35 days to assess whether police stops predicted adolescents' school disengagement through their psychological distress as a mediator. Results showed that 9% of youth ex…
Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood
In response to the changing nature of policing in the United States, and current climate of police–citizen relations, research has begun to explore the consequences of adolescent police contact for life outcomes. The current study investigates if and under what conditions police contact has repercussions for future orientation during adolescence and the transition into young adulthood. Using data from the Pathways to Desistance study, a multisite…
Incarceration as a unique social stressor during pregnancy
People Will Bury Their Guns before They Surrender Them
Though gun violence is a global issue, the risk of firearm death is substantially higher in the United States than in other high-income nations. Guns are deeply rooted within American culture; however, different subcultures exist along the urban-rural divide. Such differences between urban and rural communities related to gun culture have been dubbed 'firearm localism.' We investigated firearm localism in a state that has the highest proportion o…
The role of neighborhoods in household food insufficiency
The link between poor quality nutrition and childhood antisocial behavior
The Case for Conceptualizing Youth–Police Contact as a Racialized Adverse Childhood Experience
The Case for Conceptualizing Youth–Police Contact as a Racialized Adverse Childhood Experience Dylan B. Jackson PhD Affiliation Dylan B. Jackson is with the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Dylan B. Jackson, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 61…
Low self-control and the adolescent police stop
Considering the role of food insecurity in low self-control and early delinquency
Adolescent Police Stops, Self-Harm, and Attempted Suicide
Objectives. To explore associations between police stops, self-harm, and attempted suicide among a large, representative sample of adolescents in the United Kingdom. Methods. Data were drawn from the 3 most recent sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), from 2012 to 2019. The MCS is an ongoing nationally representative contemporary birth cohort of children born in the United Kingdom between September 2000 and January 2002 (n = 10 345). We…
Anticipation of racially motivated police brutality and youth mental health
Sleep Problems among Mothers of Youth Stopped by the Police
Adverse Housing Conditions and Early‐Onset Delinquency
Highlights Adverse housing conditions are significantly associated with early‐onset delinquency. Household health/safety hazards play an important role in this association. Housing risks in the absence of health/safety hazards are unrelated to early delinquency. Efforts to reduce housing health/safety hazards may protect against early delinquent involvement
Examining the nuance in adolescents’ police encounters
Youth−police encounters reflect a pivotal point for intervention to improve police−community relations. Data from 454 youths ( M = 15.1 years) included brief written descriptions of positive and negative experiences with a police officer and perceptions of police using Likert‐scale items. Participating youths described both positive (46%) and negative (60%) experiences with police. Besides decidedly positive experiences, youths also responded to …
Quality over quantity? Using sibling comparisons to examine relations between sleep quality, sleep duration, and delinquency
National Burden of Injury and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015‒2020
Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July 2021 to April 2023, we manually reviewed publicly available records on all 2015–2020 injurious shootings by US police, identified from Gun Violence Archive. We estimated injury frequency, case fatality rates, and relative odds of death by incident and victim characteristics. Resu…
Youth Mental Well-Being Following Witnessed Police Stops
Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health Inequalities
Although research has established the disproportionate health burdens among incarcerated persons, the literature has yet to identify a theoretical framework for outlining the harms of incarceration associated with pandemics. We advance the literature theoretically by arguing two points. First, we assert that incarceration is a potent structural driver of health inequalities that must be considered as a fundamental social cause of disease. To unde…
Police stops and youths’ educational expectations
Adverse Childhood Experiences, health insurance status, and health care utilization in middle adulthood
Exclusionary School Discipline during Childhood and Adolescent Police Encounters
A growing body of literature demonstrates exclusionary discipline (e.g., suspension, expulsion) elevates the risk of arrest and incarceration. Even so, the bulk of research to date overlooks the influence of exclusionary discipline during childhood on police contact experiences that may not result in a formal arrest. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), we find that, regardless of early delinquent involvement, e…
Officer gunpoint during police stops
Youth-police contact is increasingly acknowledged as a stressor and a racialized adverse childhood experience that can undermine youths' mental health. The present study investigates a particularly distressing feature of youths' direct and witnessed in-person police stops-officer gunpoint (i.e., officers drawing of firearms and pointing them at youth, their peers, or other community members). We examine patterns of youths' officer gunpoint exposu…
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent handgun carrying
Violent victimisation trajectories from adolescence through adulthood
BACKGROUND: Violent victimisation is a stressful experience that has been linked with sleep problems among children, adolescents and adults. However, prior research has not assessed how victimisation trajectories across different stages of the life-course correspond to sleep outcomes. The present study assesses how trajectories of violent victimisation from adolescence to middle adulthood correspond to sleep behaviours in adulthood. METHODS: Data…
Examining the association between Maoa genotype and incarceration, anger and hostility
The influence of neuropsychological deficits in early childhood on low self-control and misconduct through early adolescence
The Role of Adolescent Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Prediction of Verbal Intelligence during Early Adulthood
A large body of research has revealed that nutrition and physical activity influence brain functioning at various stages of the life course. Nevertheless, very few studies have explored whether diet and exercise influence verbal intelligence as youth transition from adolescence into young adulthood. Even fewer studies have explored the link between these health behaviors and verbal intelligence while accounting for genetic and environmental facto…
The Influence of Nutritional Factors on Verbal Deficits and Psychopathic Personality Traits
The current study explores whether: (a) nutritional factors among adolescent males predict their risk of exhibiting verbal deficits and psychopathic traits during adulthood and (b) the link between nutritional factors and these outcomes is conditioned by the MAOA genotype. The study analyzes data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative, genetically informative sample. We find eviden…
A shared pathway of antisocial risk
The link between infant neuropsychological risk and childhood antisocial behavior among males
The link between poor quality nutrition and childhood antisocial behavior
Breastfeeding duration and offspring conduct problems
Does breast-feeding reduce offspring junk food consumption during childhood? Examinations by socio-economic status and race/ethnicity
Objective To examine whether breast-feeding duration and socio-economic status (SES) interact to predict junk food consumption among offspring and whether the interaction differs across racial/ethnic groups. Design Survey research using a longitudinal panel design. Hierarchical linear regression was used to analyse the data. Setting In-home interviews with the child’s parents over a 5-year period across the USA. Subjects Approximately 10 000 Amer…
Adverse Housing Conditions and Early‐Onset Delinquency
Highlights Adverse housing conditions are significantly associated with early‐onset delinquency. Household health/safety hazards play an important role in this association. Housing risks in the absence of health/safety hazards are unrelated to early delinquency. Efforts to reduce housing health/safety hazards may protect against early delinquent involvement
The bully-victim overlap and nutrition among school-aged youth in North America and Europe
Considering the role of food insecurity in low self-control and early delinquency
How far does the apple fall from the tree? Maternal delinquency and sex-specific patterns of offspring delinquent behavior
Maternal medical risks during pregnancy and childhood externalizing behavior
People Will Bury Their Guns before They Surrender Them
Though gun violence is a global issue, the risk of firearm death is substantially higher in the United States than in other high-income nations. Guns are deeply rooted within American culture; however, different subcultures exist along the urban-rural divide. Such differences between urban and rural communities related to gun culture have been dubbed 'firearm localism.' We investigated firearm localism in a state that has the highest proportion o…
Police Stops Among At-Risk Youth
Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health
The Routledge International Handbook of Delinquency and Health presents state-of-the-art research and theorizing on the intersections between health, delinquency, and the juvenile justice system. Organized into three parts--Theoretical and Empirical Foundations; Behavioral, Mental, and Physical Health Conditions; and Prevention, Policy, and Health Promotion Systems--it is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind, featuring contribution…
Household Food Insufficiency and Children Witnessing Physical Violence in the Home
Incarceration Exposure and Maternal Food Insecurity During Pregnancy
Obesogenic food consumption among young children
Objective To determine whether children exposed to a greater variety of acts of parent-to-child physical and psychological maltreatment will be at greater risk of consuming obesogenic foods at a higher frequency. Design Survey research using a longitudinal panel design. Setting In-home interviews with primary caregivers in twenty large US cities. Participants A national sample of at-risk children and their families who participated in the Fragile…
Family member death among formerly incarcerated persons
Bereavement carries consequences for the health and socioeconomic well-being of surviving family members. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the current study investigates whether formerly incarcerated individuals experience the death of a family member at higher rates than the general population. We find that relative to those without a history of incarceration, formerly incarcerated individuals are mo…
It's all the rage! Exploring the nuances in the link between vaping and adolescent delinquency
The role of neighborhoods in household food insufficiency
Incarceration Exposure and Barriers to Prenatal Care in the United States
Previous research demonstrates that exposure to incarceration during pregnancy - either personally or vicariously through a partner - worsens parental care. However, little is known about the specific barriers to parental care that are associated with incarceration exposure. Using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (years 2009-2016), the current study examines the relationship between exposure to incarceration during pregna…
Household food insecurity and children's oral health
Household food insecurity is a potent risk factor for oral health problems and unmet oral health care needs among US children. Programmatic efforts to address household food insecurity may yield collateral benefits for the oral health of children. Furthermore, because socioeconomic status and insurance-related variables explain part of the association, targeted interventions to improve these factors may improve oral health among at-risk children
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