In this study, we contribute to the emerging scholarship at the intersection of crime and health by estimating the effect of serious offending on offenders’ health. By building on sociological stress research, we identify and adjust for the key life course processes that may intervene on the pathway from offending to health using a rich set of measures available in the panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Because offending and health share many causes and consequences, a critical challenge is accounting for confounding and mediation that unfold over time. We adjust for these time-varying processes by estimating repeated measures marginal structural models with inverse probability of treatment weights. The results show that offending over the life course is adversely linked to health but not uniformly across race and gender.

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严重犯罪对健康的影响：边际结构模型

在这项研究中，我们通过估计严重犯罪对犯罪者健康的影响，为犯罪与健康交叉领域的新兴学术做出了贡献。通过建立社会压力研究，我们使用《国家青少年到成人健康纵向研究》的面板数据中提供的一系列丰富指标，来确定和调整可能干预从犯罪到健康的关键生命过程过程。因为犯罪和健康有许多原因和后果，所以一个关键的挑战是要考虑随着时间的流逝而出现的困惑和调解。我们通过估计重复权重与处理权重成反比的边际结构模型来适应这些时变过程。