Open AccessDisparities 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.