Open AccessIncarceration as Forced Migration: Effects on Selected Community Health Outcomes
Author(s) -
James C. Thomas,
Elizabeth Torrone
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.081760
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , population , confidence interval , mass incarceration , poverty , prison , environmental health , geography , archaeology , sociology , economic growth , economics
We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies.