Research has shown negative health outcomes from felony imprisonment. The conditions that create and exacerbate physical and mental health outcomes on the felony side—exposure to disease, lack of health care, and stress—are reflected in other less severe forms of criminal justice contact. Given that the low-level contact has grown along with prison incarceration, the health effects of less severe forms of criminal justice contact should be investigated. Using 10 waves from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 ([NLSY97), this project explores the impact on self-reported physical and mental health from the continuum of contact, namely, an arrest, conviction, and jail sentence. The results show that low-level forms of contact negatively affect both physical and mental health throughout the continuum of contact. The role of the type of conviction is investigated, providing a more nuanced understanding of how points of contact operate on essential outcomes such as physical and mental health.

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河上有多远？刑事司法联系和健康成果

研究表明，重罪监禁对健康有负面影响。在其他较不严重的刑事司法接触形式中，反映了在重罪者一方造成并加重身心健康后果的条件（暴露于疾病，缺乏医疗保健和压力）。鉴于低级接触与监狱监禁一起增长，应调查较轻形式的刑事司法接触对健康的影响。该项目使用1997年全国青少年纵向调查（[NLSY97）中的10个波浪），从连续的接触（即逮捕，定罪和监禁）中探索了对自我报告的身心健康的影响。结果表明，低水平的接触形式在整个接触过程中都对身心健康产生负面影响。