Beyond Incarceration
Criminal Justice Contact and Mental Health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5117966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi F Sugie (0000-0002-2346-4786, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), K Turney (0000-0003-4642-3490, University of California, Irvine) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 719-743 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003122417713188 |
| OpenAlex | W2736726115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 153 |
| References cited | 96 |
A growing literature documents deleterious consequences of incarceration for mental health. Although salient, incarceration is only one form of criminal justice contact and, accordingly, focusing on incarceration may mask the extent to which the criminal justice system influences mental health. Using insights from the stress process paradigm, along with nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we examine criminal justice contact-defined as arrest, conviction, and incarceration-and mental health. First, fixed-effects models, which adjust for stable unobserved and time-varying observed characteristics, show that arrest is deleteriously associated with mental health, and arrest accounts for nearly half of the association between incarceration and poor mental health, although certain types of incarceration appear more consequential than others. Second, the associations are similar across race and ethnicity; this, combined with racial/ethnic disparities in contact, indicates that criminal justice interactions exacerbate minority health inequalities. Third, the associations between criminal justice contact, especially arrest and incarceration, and mental health are particularly large among respondents residing in contextually disadvantaged areas during adolescence. Taken together, the results suggest that the consequences of criminal justice contact for mental health have a far greater reach than previously considered
Conviction · Criminal justice · Criminology · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Mass incarceration · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology
Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Overall and Drug-Related Arrests in Rhode Island from 2017 to 2025
The Lasting Association between Interrupted Medical Care During US Immigration Detention and Mental Health Outcomes
Exploring Social Determinants of Cognitive Functioning
Collateral Consequences of Punishment
Police Stops Among At-Risk Youth
Social vulnerabilities for substance use
Police as Policymakers
Recreational Marijuana Laws and Racial Disparities
A consequence of mass incarceration
Impact of County-level health infrastructure on participation in a reform effort to reduce the use of jail for individuals with mental health disorders
Disparities in Youth Arrest Across Racial and Ethnic Subgroups
Examining Justice System Exposure Among Youth on Health in Young Adulthood
The Impact of PTSD and Depression on Romantic Attachment Within Incarcerated Romantic Relationships
The Influence of Relational Skills and Commitment on Fidelity Among Incarcerated Individuals
Identifying Multilevel Community Supervision Challenges to Inform Diversion Approaches for People With Mental Illnesses
Housing Instability Following Felony Conviction and Incarceration
Does the State Impact Hope? The Impact of Direct and Vicarious Police Contact on the Optimism of Youth in Large Cities
Neurointerventions and informed consent
“I Done Been Through a Lot of Stuff and I Done Seen a Lot of Things”
Incarceration, polygenic risk, and depressive symptoms among males in late adulthood
Investigating the Impact of Prior Criminal Justice Contact on Labor Market Outcomes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Depictions of Firearm Violence Perpetrators and Support for Firearm Policies
The Impact of Detention on Youth Outcomes
The Association Between Sleep Duration and Arrest Among Adolescents
Does the Timing and Length of Incarceration Matter for Long-Term Economic and Health Outcomes? Analysis of Male Arrestees Drawn From a Nationally Representative Sample
The Characteristics and Benefits of Disclosing Personal Experiences in Prison
Family member incarceration and mental health
Disclosure among youth stopped by the police
Detecting genetic heterogeneities in response to trauma
Undoing resilience
Healthcare-induced trauma in correctional facilities
Differences in opioid use and overdose among younger and older justice-impacted adults
New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019
Childhood police encounters, social isolation and epigenetic age acceleration among older U.S. adults
Police Contact, Collective Efficacy, and Grit among Youth in Urban Areas
Association Between Social Adaptability Index Score and Lifetime Criminal Legal Involvement in U.S. Adults
Race-gender Disparities in the Criminalization and Medicalization of Mental Illness
Serious psychological distress, unmet mental health treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in New York City
Beyond Virality
The Effect of Timing of Incarceration on Mental Health
Criminal Justice Contact, Residential Independence, and Returns to the Parental Home
The Effect of Split Sentences on Employment and Future Criminal Justice Involvement
The Consequences Are Black and White
The Mental Health Consequences of Vicarious Adolescent Police Exposure
Connecting Models of Family Stress to Inequality
Paternal Incarceration, Race and Ethnicity, and Maternal Health
Latina/o youths’ discrimination experiences in the U.S. Southwest
Should police be turning up at all? managing mental health crises in an English Constabulary under the Right Care, Right Person framework
“We’re not anti-police…We’re anti-police brutality”
Health Effects of Policing in Hospitals
Weighed down by discriminatory policing
Harmful Alcohol Use and Associated Socio-Structural Factors among Female Sex Workers Initiating HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Arrest Histories and Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Women in the USA
Criminal Justice Contact and Health Service Utilization among Women across Health Care Settings
I am drug dependent’
Reproductive health consequences of criminal legal involvement for women who use drugs in Taiwan
Policing and drug market-related violence
Mental Disorders Among Mothers in Contact with the Criminal Justice System
Jail Incarceration
The Impact of Incarceration on Recidivism
Child Incarceration and Maternal Alcohol Use
Digital Vulnerability
Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality
Life During Covid for Court-Involved People
Locked Out of the Labor Market? State-Level Hidden Sentences and the Labor Market Outcomes of Recently Incarcerated Young Adults
Local Policing and the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented College Students
Pretrial Detention and the Costs of System Overreach for Employment and Family Life
Criminal Justice Contact and Indebtedness in Young Adulthood
How Far Up the River? Criminal Justice Contact and Health Outcomes
Justice System Contact and Health
Toward a Psychological Science of Abolition Democracy
Psychiatric Disorders among African Americans and the Intersection of Personal and Familial Incarceration
Motherhood Status and Behavioral Health Among Justice-Involved Women
Mourning for Strangers
Beyond Recidivism and Desistance
Incarceration Exposure, Biological Aging, and Depression Symptoms in an African American Sample of Older Adults
Hobbling
Locked up and awaiting trial
Legal reality or legal mirage? Examining the relationship between police violence, legal consciousness, and the promise of civil legal justice
Access to justice at the intersection of civil and criminal law
Diminished citizenship in the era of mass incarceration
Association Between Recent Criminal Legal Involvement and Functional Status Among US Adults with Diabetes
Before and After Ban the Box
Punitive Justice
Beyond Psychological Costs
The effect of direct and vicarious police contact on the educational achievement of urban teens
Anticipated unmet educational expectations following youth police contact
Racial and ethnic differences in the availability of community medical services after leaving prison
Health Status and Health Care Utilization of US Adults Under Probation
Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation
The Distribution of Carceral Harm
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life
Felon history and change in U.S. employment rates
Assessing the Effect of First-time Police Contact on Internalizing Problems Among Youth in Zurich, Switzerland
Stuck in the cycle? Assessing a reciprocal model of incarceration, health, and relative risk over twenty-five years
Twenty years in the making
Incarceration and cardiovascular health
A retrospective study of the role of probation revocation in future criminal justice involvement
Tackling UCR's missing data problem
The racial/ethnic health consequences of the U.S. criminal justice system
Doing Time Together
Fixed Effects Regression Models
Exposure to Community Violence and Young Adult Crime
Cumulative Prevalence of Arrest From Ages 8 to 23 in a National Sample
Amelia II
Sampling the Stress Universe
Current Issues and Future Directions in Research into the Stress Process
Stigma and its public health implications
Prisoner Survival Inside and Outside of the Institution
Prevalence of Mental Illnesses in U.S. State Prisons
Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration
The structure of psychological distress and well-being in general populations.
Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23
The Stress Process Revisited
Screening for mental health
Discrimination and racial disparities in health
Justice in America
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Locked OutFelon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
Arresting Citizenship
Criminalizing mental disorder
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality
Perceptual Research on General Deterrence
Mass Imprisonment and Inequality in Health and Family Life
Neighborhood disorder and anxiety symptoms
Collateral Damage
Income inequality and physical and mental health
A comparison of the moderating effects of personal coping resources on the impact of exposure to stress in two groups
Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Population Health Inequalities
The Health and Health Care of US Prisoners
Investigating Neighborhood and Area Effects on Health
The Effect of Local Violence on Children’s Attention and Impulse Control
Aggressive Policing and the Mental Health of Young Urban Men
Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United States
Incarcerating death
Neighborhood distress and school dropout
Social Isolation of Disadvantage and Advantage
Punishment's place
The Multilevel Context of Criminal Sentencing
Using the Correct Statistical Test for the Equality of Regression Coefficients
Assessing the Race‐violence Relationship at the Macro Level
The Edge of Stigma
The Society of Captives
Performance of a Five-Item Mental Health Screening Test
Racial Variation in the Effect of Incarceration on Neighborhood Attainment
Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course
Police Relations with Black and White Youths in Different Urban Neighborhoods
Found Out and Opting Out
Social Structure, Stress, and Mental Health
Living under surveillance
Surveillance and System Avoidance
"An empirical assessment of the "healthy prisoner hypothesis
Neighborhood Effects on Family Formation
Neighborhoods, daily activities, and measuring health risks experienced in urban environments
The Structural Context of Homicide
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
On the Run
Nonmarital First Births, Marriage, and Income Inequality
When Work Disappears
Incarceration, Health, and Racial Disparities in Health
Asylums
The Forms and Mechanisms of Stress Proliferation
Socioeconomic Status and Depression over the Life Course
The Sociological Study of Stress
The Stress Process
Life Events, Social Supports, and Psychiatric Symptoms
Stress Proliferation across Generations? Examining the Relationship between Parental Incarceration and Childhood Health
As Fathers and Felons
The Relationships between Mothers' Work Pathways and Physical and Mental Health
Out and Down
Incorporating Children's Lives into a Life Course Perspective on Stress and Mental Health
Stress and Health
Incarceration as Exposure
Enduring Stigma
Stress, Health, and the Life Course
Incarceration and Stratification
Incarceration and Health
Religion, Marriage Markets, and Assortative Mating in the United States
Hopelessly Devoted? Relationship Quality During and After Incarceration
Chronic and Proximate Depression Among Mothers
Poverty, Delinquency, and Educational Attainment
Stress and Hardship after Prison
Misdemeanor Justice
Segregation, Racial Structure, and Neighborhood Violent Crime
The Mark of a Criminal Record
Mass imprisonment and the life course revisited
| Unique citing works | 153 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 19,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 150 |