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Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males

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There has been a great deal of scholarship examining the outcomes associated with being processed through the criminal justice system. Much of this research has focused on legal outcomes, such as recidivism, but research has also centered on extralegal outcomes, including measures of health and economics. The current study added to this body of research by examining whether contact with the criminal justice system (i.e., arrest, conviction, and incarceration) was associated with health problems, suicidal ideation, economic disadvantage, and poverty in adulthood for males. The analyses controlled for preexisting criminogenic measures (e.g., low self-control, delinquent peers, neighborhood disadvantage) and for adolescent delinquent involvement. Data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) were analyzed. The results revealed that all of the criminal justice system measures were statistically significant predictors of the health and economic outcomes even after accounting for preexisting criminogenic traits and delinquent behavior.

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Acknowledgements

Wave VI of Add Health is supported by two grants from the National Institute on Aging (1U01AG071448, principal investigator Robert A. Hummer, and 1U01AG071450, principal investigators Allison E. Aiello and Robert A. Hummer) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Co-funding for Wave VI is being provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, and the NIH Office of Disease Prevention. The content of this paper/presentation is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Add Health was designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The project was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from 1994-2021, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Add Health is currently directed by Robert A. Hummer; it was previously directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris (2004-2021) and J. Richard Udry (1994-2004).

This study was carried out as part of the fundamental research AP14872079, “Victimological Problems of Prevention of Domestic Violence.”

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  1. Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Criminalistics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Dzhansarayeva Rima, Maral Akbolatova, Tlepbergenov Orynbasar & Jangabulova Arailym

  2. College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-1127, USA

    Kevin M. Beaver

  3. Center for Social and Humanities Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Kevin M. Beaver

  4. College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, 145 Convocation Way, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-1273, USA

    Kevin M. Beaver

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Rima, D., Akbolatova, M., Orynbasar, T. et al. Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males. Am J Crim Just 48, 1063–1079 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-022-09723-3

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