Jessica T Simes
Biographic Data
| ID | 254118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica T Simes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica T |
| FAMILY NAME | Simes |
| SIGNATURE | SIMES J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1083-600X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mass incarceration and its spillover effects: A scoping review of incarceration rates and health
Legacies of Punishment Vulnerability: Revisiting the Seven Neighborhoods Study
In 1979, a group of men incarcerated in New York state (NYS) prisons analyzed the relationship between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75 percent of the NYS prisons’ population came from just seven neighborhoods in New York City (NYC). Inspired by this study, we combine novel archival data with census tract imprisonment data to examine the geography of incarceration in more recent years. Our findings reveal a marked spatial deconcen…
Solitary confinement and post-release drug and alcohol test failure among formerly incarcerated men on parole in Pennsylvania (2010–2023)
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization
The impact of carceral churn and healthcare organizations on HIV/Aids incidence in Arkansas
Penal and healthcare institutions generate and mitigate community-level health inequality, respectively.•Arkansas Counties with high prison churn and disadvantage have higher rates of HIV/AIDS.•Hospital density moderates effect of prison churn on incidence of HIV/AIDS
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System
Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how community conditions contribute to variation in criminal justice outcomes and how multiple criminal justice exposures (e.g., policing and punishment) vary together in places. In this article, we identify spatial-contextual analyses of the criminal legal system and summarize their…
Clustering of health burdens in solitary confinement: A mixed-methods approach
Research on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement has contributed to restrictions on its use, particularly for people with serious mental illness. However, solitary confinement continues to isolate people with physical and mental health problems, even where its use has been restricted. This mixed-methods analysis seeks to evaluate the practice of solitary confinement on mental and physical health using data from a sample of 99 me…
Prenatal healthcare after sentencing reform: Heterogeneous effects for prenatal healthcare access and equity
Pennsylvania's sentencing reforms were associated with small advancements in racial and socioeconomic equity in prenatal care
Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Arrest Rates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum
Recent social movements have called for an end to mass incarceration and the diversion of funds from police and carceral institutions to social services. However, such a restructuring is limited without addressing the commonplace collaborations between criminal justice actors and social service practitioners. In an interview study with 66 social service providers who offer services to formerly incarcerated people, we examine practitioners’ relati…
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement
Harsh prison conditions have been widely examined for their effects on the mental health of incarcerated people, but few studies have examined whether mental health status exposes individuals to harsh treatment in the penal system. With prisoners confined to their cells for up to 23 hours each day, often being denied visitors or phone calls, solitary confinement is an important case for studying harsh treatment in prisons. Routinely used as punis…
The Ecology of Race and Punishment across Cities
In an era of mass incarceration in the United States, neighborhood context plays a significant role in demographic patterns of imprisonment. This paper examines the preprison neighborhood environment of racial and ethnic groups within the Massachusetts prison admission population. The data include over 12,000 prison records of individuals sentenced to state prison for a criminal offense between 2009 and 2014. Findings indicate significant spatial…
Drug use in the year after prison
Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency
Place after prison: Neighborhood attainment and attachment during reentry
More than 600,000 people leave prison and become residents of neighborhoods across the United States annually. Using a longitudinal survey of people returning to Greater Boston, this study examines disparities in neighborhood attainment after prison. Accounting for levels of pre-prison neighborhood disadvantage, Black and Hispanic respondents moved into significantly more disadvantaged areas than Whites. Neighborhood residence was not attained by…
The Politics of Immigration and Crime
Americans have long believed that immigrants are more likely than natives to commit crimes, and that rising immigration thus leads to rising crime. This belief is remarkably resilient to the evidence that immigrants are no more likely than natives, and in most cases much less likely than natives, to commit crimes. Undocumented immigrants are called “illegal aliens” and many, if not most, Americans believe that it is a crime to exist in the United…
Does anti-Semitism among African Americans simply reflect anti-White sentiment
In his classic essay (1967) titled "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White," writer James Baldwin argues that African American resentment of Jews reflects generalized anti-White sentiment. The current study examines levels of anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States among African Americans and other racial/ethnic groups. Using General Social Survey (2000) data for a nationally representative sample of adults (n = 1,118), this rese…
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System
Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how community conditions contribute to variation in criminal justice outcomes and how multiple criminal justice exposures (e.g., policing and punishment) vary together in places. In this article, we identify spatial-contextual analyses of the criminal legal system and summarize their…
Drug use in the year after prison
Place after prison: Neighborhood attainment and attachment during reentry
More than 600,000 people leave prison and become residents of neighborhoods across the United States annually. Using a longitudinal survey of people returning to Greater Boston, this study examines disparities in neighborhood attainment after prison. Accounting for levels of pre-prison neighborhood disadvantage, Black and Hispanic respondents moved into significantly more disadvantaged areas than Whites. Neighborhood residence was not attained by…
We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum
Recent social movements have called for an end to mass incarceration and the diversion of funds from police and carceral institutions to social services. However, such a restructuring is limited without addressing the commonplace collaborations between criminal justice actors and social service practitioners. In an interview study with 66 social service providers who offer services to formerly incarcerated people, we examine practitioners’ relati…
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement
Harsh prison conditions have been widely examined for their effects on the mental health of incarcerated people, but few studies have examined whether mental health status exposes individuals to harsh treatment in the penal system. With prisoners confined to their cells for up to 23 hours each day, often being denied visitors or phone calls, solitary confinement is an important case for studying harsh treatment in prisons. Routinely used as punis…
Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Arrest Rates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Ecology of Race and Punishment across Cities
In an era of mass incarceration in the United States, neighborhood context plays a significant role in demographic patterns of imprisonment. This paper examines the preprison neighborhood environment of racial and ethnic groups within the Massachusetts prison admission population. The data include over 12,000 prison records of individuals sentenced to state prison for a criminal offense between 2009 and 2014. Findings indicate significant spatial…
Does anti-Semitism among African Americans simply reflect anti-White sentiment
In his classic essay (1967) titled "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White," writer James Baldwin argues that African American resentment of Jews reflects generalized anti-White sentiment. The current study examines levels of anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States among African Americans and other racial/ethnic groups. Using General Social Survey (2000) data for a nationally representative sample of adults (n = 1,118), this rese…
Does anti-Semitism among African Americans simply reflect anti-White sentiment
In his classic essay (1967) titled "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White," writer James Baldwin argues that African American resentment of Jews reflects generalized anti-White sentiment. The current study examines levels of anti-Semitic attitudes in the United States among African Americans and other racial/ethnic groups. Using General Social Survey (2000) data for a nationally representative sample of adults (n = 1,118), this rese…
The Politics of Immigration and Crime
Americans have long believed that immigrants are more likely than natives to commit crimes, and that rising immigration thus leads to rising crime. This belief is remarkably resilient to the evidence that immigrants are no more likely than natives, and in most cases much less likely than natives, to commit crimes. Undocumented immigrants are called “illegal aliens” and many, if not most, Americans believe that it is a crime to exist in the United…
Place after prison: Neighborhood attainment and attachment during reentry
More than 600,000 people leave prison and become residents of neighborhoods across the United States annually. Using a longitudinal survey of people returning to Greater Boston, this study examines disparities in neighborhood attainment after prison. Accounting for levels of pre-prison neighborhood disadvantage, Black and Hispanic respondents moved into significantly more disadvantaged areas than Whites. Neighborhood residence was not attained by…
The Ecology of Race and Punishment across Cities
In an era of mass incarceration in the United States, neighborhood context plays a significant role in demographic patterns of imprisonment. This paper examines the preprison neighborhood environment of racial and ethnic groups within the Massachusetts prison admission population. The data include over 12,000 prison records of individuals sentenced to state prison for a criminal offense between 2009 and 2014. Findings indicate significant spatial…
Drug use in the year after prison
Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency
Clustering of health burdens in solitary confinement: A mixed-methods approach
Research on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement has contributed to restrictions on its use, particularly for people with serious mental illness. However, solitary confinement continues to isolate people with physical and mental health problems, even where its use has been restricted. This mixed-methods analysis seeks to evaluate the practice of solitary confinement on mental and physical health using data from a sample of 99 me…
Prenatal healthcare after sentencing reform: Heterogeneous effects for prenatal healthcare access and equity
Pennsylvania's sentencing reforms were associated with small advancements in racial and socioeconomic equity in prenatal care
Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Arrest Rates during the Covid-19 Pandemic
We’re Here to Help”: Criminal Justice Collaboration among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum
Recent social movements have called for an end to mass incarceration and the diversion of funds from police and carceral institutions to social services. However, such a restructuring is limited without addressing the commonplace collaborations between criminal justice actors and social service practitioners. In an interview study with 66 social service providers who offer services to formerly incarcerated people, we examine practitioners’ relati…
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement
Harsh prison conditions have been widely examined for their effects on the mental health of incarcerated people, but few studies have examined whether mental health status exposes individuals to harsh treatment in the penal system. With prisoners confined to their cells for up to 23 hours each day, often being denied visitors or phone calls, solitary confinement is an important case for studying harsh treatment in prisons. Routinely used as punis…
The impact of carceral churn and healthcare organizations on HIV/Aids incidence in Arkansas
Penal and healthcare institutions generate and mitigate community-level health inequality, respectively.•Arkansas Counties with high prison churn and disadvantage have higher rates of HIV/AIDS.•Hospital density moderates effect of prison churn on incidence of HIV/AIDS
Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System
Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how community conditions contribute to variation in criminal justice outcomes and how multiple criminal justice exposures (e.g., policing and punishment) vary together in places. In this article, we identify spatial-contextual analyses of the criminal legal system and summarize their…
Solitary confinement and post-release drug and alcohol test failure among formerly incarcerated men on parole in Pennsylvania (2010–2023)
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization
Mass incarceration and its spillover effects: A scoping review of incarceration rates and health
Legacies of Punishment Vulnerability: Revisiting the Seven Neighborhoods Study
In 1979, a group of men incarcerated in New York state (NYS) prisons analyzed the relationship between neighborhoods and incarceration, finding that 75 percent of the NYS prisons’ population came from just seven neighborhoods in New York City (NYC). Inspired by this study, we combine novel archival data with census tract imprisonment data to examine the geography of incarceration in more recent years. Our findings reveal a marked spatial deconcen…
Political science (14 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Prison (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works)