Police stops are a pervasive form of criminal justice contact among adolescents, particularly adolescents of color, that have adverse repercussions for mental health. Yet, the mental health consequences of adolescent police stops likely proliferate to parents of adolescents exposed to this form of criminal justice contact. In this article, I conceptualize adolescent police stops as a stressor, drawing on the stress process perspective to examine how and under what conditions this form of criminal justice contact damages the mental health of adolescents’ mothers. The results, based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, suggest three conclusions. First, the mental health consequences of adolescent police stops proliferate, increasing the likelihood of depression and anxiety among adolescents’ mothers. These relationships persist across modeling strategies that adjust for observed confounders, including adolescent characteristics such as delinquency and substance use. Second, the relationship between adolescent police stops and mothers’ mental health is contingent, concentrated among mothers with prior exposure to the criminal justice system (either via themselves or their adolescents’ fathers). Third, mothers’ emotional support buffers the relationship between adolescent police stops and mothers’ mental health. Taken together, this research highlights the role of police exposure as a stressor that is experienced vicariously and that has contingent consequences and, accordingly, documents the expansive and proliferating repercussions of police contact. Given the concentration of police contact among marginalized adolescents, including adolescents of color, these findings highlight another way the criminal justice system exacerbates structural inequalities.

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替代青少年警察暴露的心理健康后果

警察拦截是青少年之间普遍存在的刑事司法接触形式，尤其是有色人种青少年，这会对心理健康产生不利影响。然而，青少年警察停止对心理健康的影响可能会扩散到接触这种刑事司法接触形式的青少年的父母。在本文中，我将青少年警察拦截概念化为压力源，利用压力过程的观点来研究这种形式的刑事司法接触如何以及在什么条件下损害青少年母亲的心理健康。基于脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究的数据得出的结果提出了三个结论。首先，青少年警察停止对心理健康造成的后果激增，增加了青少年母亲患抑郁症和焦虑症的可能性。这些关系在针对观察到的混杂因素进行调整的建模策略中持续存在，包括青少年特征，例如犯罪和物质使用。其次，青少年警察停止与母亲的心理健康之间的关系是偶然的，集中在先前接触过刑事司法系统的母亲（通过他们自己或青少年的父亲）。第三，母亲的情感支持缓冲了青少年警戒与母亲心理健康的关系。总而言之，这项研究强调了警察接触作为一种压力源的作用，这种压力源可以通过替代方式体验并产生或有后果，因此，记录了警察接触的广泛和不断增加的影响。鉴于警察与边缘化青少年的接触集中，