People with disabilities face greater risk of arrest by age 30

Those with a cognitive, physical, emotional, or sensory disability are more likely to be arrested by the time they reach their late 20s than their peers without a disability. That finding comes from data published in the American Journal of Public Health , which analyzed data on 9,000 Americans who were born between 1980 and 1984. Those with a disability of some kind faced a 43 percent probability of having been arrested by the time they reached their late 20s, versus those without a disability who faced a 30 percent probability by that same age.