Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA.

By Christopher Wildeman, E. Wang. The Lancet, 2017

683 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Brigette A. Davis
2. Jourdyn A. Lawrence
3. David R. Williams
4. Ben Green
5. Shervin Assari

In Health

1. Brigette A. Davis
2. Jourdyn A. Lawrence
3. David R. Williams
4. Ben Green
5. Shervin Assari

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Brigette A. Davis
2. Jourdyn A. Lawrence
3. David R. Williams
4. Ben Green
5. Shervin Assari

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• Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research (2019, background): “For example, structural racism in the criminal justice system (84, 130) can adversely affect health through multiple pathways (38, 66, 130).”
• Stress and the Mental Health of Populations of Color:Advancing Our Understanding of Race-related Stressors (2018, background): “…prosecution, and sentencing have been associated with a 10-fold increase in risk of incarceration for non-Hispanic blacks compared to white men in the United States, often reinforced by policies that have differentially criminalized substance abuse and mental illness (Wildeman and Wang 2017).”