Essays on crime, incarceration and health / Valerio Baćak.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Baćak, Valerio, author.

Contributor:

Schnittker, Jason, degree supervisor.

Allison, Paul D., degree committee member.

MacDonald, John M., degree committee member.

Uggen, Christopher, degree committee member.

Wildeman, Christopher, degree committee member.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Sociology, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Sociology.

Sociology--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Sociology.

Sociology--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

viii,123 leaves ; 29 cm

Production:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2015.

Summary:

This dissertation examines the effects of crime and incarceration on health. In the first chapter, I build on the stress process theory to assess the gendered effects of serious offending on offenders' health. By applying marginal structural models to panel data from the National Youth Survey, I find that offending adversely impacts depression, self-rated health, and functional limitations--but not uniformly across gender. The second chapter contributes to the ongoing debates on the growing role of privatization in the criminal justice system. With data from the 2005 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, I compare inmate victimization and availability of health-related services in private and public prisons. Using propensity score matching, I find similar levels of inmate-on-inmate assaults and fewer health services offered to inmates in private prisons. The third chapter places incarceration within a life course perspective using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. I apply generalized additive models to semiparametrically examine how duration, frequency, and timing of incarceration relate to physical and mental health. The results indicate a small nonlinear effect of duration on depression but mainly suggest that whether or not a person has ever been incarcerated remains as important in predicting health outcomes as the more refined indicators of incarceration.

Notes:

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania 2015.

Department: Sociology.

Supervisor: Jason Schnittker.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

951160854