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Disparities in Criminal Court Referrals to Drug Treatment and Prison for Minority Men

Author(s) -

Nancy Nicosia,

John M. MacDonald,

Jeremy Arkes

Publication year - 2013

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.2013.301222

Subject(s) - prison , criminal justice , odds , ethnic group , medicine , criminology , health equity , psychiatry , odds ratio , logistic regression , demography , psychology , public health , political science , law , sociology , nursing , pathology

We investigated the extent to which racial/ethnic disparities in prison and diversion to drug treatment were explained by current arrest and criminal history characteristics among drug-involved offenders, and whether those disparities decreased after California's Proposition 36, which mandated first- and second-time nonviolent drug offenders drug treatment instead of prison.

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