Toward a Demographic Understanding of Incarceration Disparities: Race, Ethnicity, and Age Structure

Vogel, Matt; Porter, Lauren

doi:10.1007/s10940-015-9265-6

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“…1 These data sets are uniquely well suited to address these research questions, representing the only publicly available and nationally representative data that collects longitudinal information on mothers' health and children's criminal justice contact. Many NLSY79 respondents have children who reached adolescence and early adulthood during the height of the prison boom and are observed near or around their early 30s when incarceration rates are highest (Vogel and Porter 2016).…”

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Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife

Goldman

2019

J Health Soc Behav

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Parents’ relationships with their adult children play an important role in shaping mid and later life health. While these relationships are often sources of support, stressors in the lives of children can compromise parents’ health as they age. I consider that a child’s incarceration is also a stressor that could imperil parents’ health through social, emotional, and economic strains that parents may experience as a result. Using data on 3,159 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 in a series of lagged dependent variable regression models, I find that a child’s incarceration is associated with declines in maternal health between ages 40 and 50. These associations are largest for mothers who had grandchildren by their child at the time of the child’s incarceration. I close by discussing the implications of child incarceration for intergenerational ties and other social determinants of midlife health.

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confidence: 99%

Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife

Goldman

2019

J Health Soc Behav

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“…In addition to changes in poverty, wealth, segregation, and inequality, other correlates of violence have changed over time in dissimilar ways across racial and ethnic groups. Age, for example, is strongly associated with violent victimization, and youth comprise a greater proportion of Blacks and Latinos than Whites (Vogel and Porter, 2016). 4 Furthermore, the age distributions of each group have changed over time at different rates, with Whites becoming increasingly older, on average, compared to Blacks and Latinos.…”

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“…4.In their assessment of national incarceration rates, Vogel and Porter (2016) found that 20% of the Latino versus White, and 8% of the Black versus White disparities in incarceration rates in 2010 are accounted for by the different age compositions of the groups.…”

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The Enduring Significance of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Male Violent Victimization, 1973–2010

2018

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Latino and Black males are more likely to suffer serious violent victimization compared to White males, and it is likely that economic disadvantage and other individual level differences play a key role in these disparities. This study of self-reported data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (1973–2010) is the first effort to assess three important issues: 1) the extent to which the relationship between serious violent victimization and race and ethnicity can be accounted for by age, location of residence, poverty status, and employment; 2) whether these factors have similar influences among Black, White, and Latino males; and 3) whether the net risk for violence associated with race and ethnicity has diminished over time. Our results show that disparities between Black and White male violent victimization decrease approximately 70% once age, location of residence, poverty status, and employment are taken into account, and that differences between Latinos and White males are fully accounted for by these factors. Poverty status is the only factor that varies in the strength of its association with violence across groups. We also find little evidence to suggest that the association between race, ethnicity and victimization risk changed significantly from 1973 to 2010, once other factors are considered. Despite notable declines in violence over this time period, Black and White disparities in male victimization persist over the past four decades; however, the relationship between poverty status and violence has increased some for Black and White males.

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“…Unemployment rates for AA men (14%) are higher than White men (6.7%; US Bureau of Labor Statistics, ). One in 13 AA men in their 30's is incarcerated, a rate that is greater than non‐AA men (Vogel & Porter, ). Rates of poverty in AA men (26%) are higher than nonminority White fathers (14%; Macartney, Bishaw, & Fontenot, ; Minton & Zeng, ).…”

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Group‐based transmission of fatherhood among intergenerational African American fathers: A case study

Gamboa

Julion

2019

Child Adoles Psych Nursing

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Problem Nonresidential fatherhood contributes to the fact that over 70% of African American (AA) children grow up in homes without their biological fathers. In the absence of gender‐specific parental guidance, AA young men who become fathers may lack paternal‐parenting preparation. Methods This secondary data analysis describes the verbal exchange of fatherhood perspectives among four experienced fathers and one adolescent father who participated in a pilot of group‐based fatherhood intervention. Qualitative descriptive case study methodology guided by Social Learning Theory was used to explore the transmission of fathering perspectives between fathers. Findings Qualitative thematic analysis affirmed that adverse emotional and psychological distress may be avoided with positive parenting preparedness. Culturally‐specific group‐based bidirectional learning can transmit fatherhood knowledge and skills to adolescent nonresidential fathers and this new perspective can contribute to adolescent wellbeing. Conclusions There is a need to investigate channels for AA adolescent boys, young men and fathers to engage in cultural‐congruent paternal modeling in the event that their biological father or other social father role models are absent from their lives.

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Toward a Demographic Understanding of Incarceration Disparities: Race, Ethnicity, and Age Structure

Cited by 30 publications

References 26 publications

Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife

Linked Lives in Double Jeopardy: Child Incarceration and Maternal Health at Midlife

The Enduring Significance of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Male Violent Victimization, 1973–2010

Group‐based transmission of fatherhood among intergenerational African American fathers: A case study

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