IMPROVING COLLECTION OF INDICATORS OF
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT IN
POPULATION HEALTH DATA PROGRAMS
Proceedings of a Workshop
Jordyn White and Esha Sinha, Rapporteurs
Committee on National Statistics
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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STEERING COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING COLLECTION OF INDICATORS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT IN POPULATION HEALTH DATA PROGRAMS
WENDY MANNING (Chair), National Center for Family and Marriage Research, Bowling Green State University
CANDACE KRUTTSCHNITT, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
JOHN LAUB, Department of Criminology, University of Maryland
RUTH PETERSON, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University
JOSIAH RICH, Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Brown University
MICHAEL SCHOBER, Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research
EMILY WANG, Department of General Medicine, Yale University
CHRISTOPHER WILDEMAN, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
JORDYN WHITE, Project Director
ESHA SINHA, Associate Program Officer
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
LAWRENCE D. BROWN (Chair), Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
FRANCINE BLAU, Department of Economics, Cornell University
MARY ELLEN BOCK, Department of Statistics (emerita), Purdue University
MICHAEL CHERNEW, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
JANET CURRIE, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
DONALD DILLMAN, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, Washington State University
CONSTANTINE GATSONIS, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University
JAMES S. HOUSE, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
THOMAS MESENBOURG, U.S. Census Bureau (retired)
SUSAN MURPHY, Department of Statistics and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
SARAH NUSSER, Office of the Vice President for Research, Iowa State University
COLM O’MUIRCHEARTAIGH, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
ROBERTO RIGOBON, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EDWARD SHORTLIFFE, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University and Arizona State University
CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Director
BRIAN HARRIS-KOJETIN, Deputy Director
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We thank the following individuals for their review of this Proceedings of a Workshop: Carl C. Bell, Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago; Michael F. Schober, Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research; and Howard Spivak, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
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Contents
Workshop Charge and Organization
Background and Impetus for the Workshop
A First-Hand Look at the Criminal Justice System
2 Defining Criminal Justice Involvement
Unpacking the Term “Criminal Justice Involvement,”
Measuring Incarceration in Household Surveys
3 Effects of Criminal Justice Involvement on Individuals, Families, and Communities
Effects on Incarcerated Adults and Their Families
Public Health Effects as a Consequence of Incarceration
4 Criminal Justice Involvement and Health
Incarceration and Health: Current State of Knowledge
Incarceration and Health: Exploring New Linkages and Emerging Viewpoints
6 Measuring Criminal Justice Contact and Incarceration Experience in Health Surveys
The National Health Interview Survey
The Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System
The National Survey of Drug Use and Health
The National Survey of Family Growth
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Adding Questions to Health Surveys: Additional Considerations and Concerns
7 Alternative Approaches to Criminal Justice Measurement
Measuring Incarceration in the Fragile Families Study
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The National Crime Victimization Survey
8 Key Themes and Possible Next Steps
B Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
