Socioeconomic Status and Racism as Fundamental Causes of Street Criminality

Barkan, Steven E.; Rocque, Michael

doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9387-x

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“…Social problems of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and low educational attainment accompany serious mental illness (11,31,32). An increasing number of researchers and advocates point to poverty as a key driver of justice involvement for people with and without serious mental illness (11,31,33). Many people with serious mental illness live in environments and communities where crime, violence, ambient substance use, and social disorganization are endemic, which can increase justice involvement (31,32,(34)(35)(36).…”

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Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved People With Serious Mental Illness Within Community Behavioral Health Systems

Bonfine

Wilson

Munetz

2020

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Section: Social Factors That Exacerbate Justice Involvementmentioning

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Meeting the Needs of Justice-Involved People With Serious Mental Illness Within Community Behavioral Health Systems

Bonfine

Wilson

Munetz

2020

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“…The theory is useful in understanding why health disparities still persist even when risk factors which used to affect low-income individuals have been resolved (Willson, 2009), and why individuals socioeconomic position could be a fundamental cause of disparities in health and health behaviors. The theory has been used to investigate inequalities in HIV/AIDS mortality (Rubin et al, 2010), surgical disparities (Qasim, 2016), violence and property crime (Barkan & Rocque, 2018).…”

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Socioeconomic inequality in tobacco use in Kenya: a concentration analysis

Donfouet

Mohamed

Malin

2021

Int J Health Econ Manag.

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Tobacco use is one of the four major risk factors for non-communicable diseases and its effect on health is well documented. Despite several policies adopted to curb tobacco use, African countries are experiencing the highest growth of tobacco use amongst developing countries.There is ample evidence in the literature about the factors influencing tobacco use among adults and youths in Africa. However, in Africa there is yawning evidence gap on the socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use. This paper attempts to fill this gap by assessing and exploring socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco use in Kenya. Using the theory of fundamental causes, a rich data set-Global Adult Tobacco Survey, and concentration index, we investigate the determinants of tobacco use in Kenya, and whether tobacco use evenly affect the poor and rich.Our results suggest that there is a strong link between tobacco use and socioeconomic inequality.Overall, the poorer households are more affected by tobacco use than richer households and this socioeconomic inequality is more evident among poorer Kenyan men, and poorer Kenyan households living in urban areas. The decomposition of the concentration index indicates that the overall socioeconomic inequality for current tobacco smokers is explained by 40.317% of the household income. This confinement of tobacco use among the poorest in Kenya could be reduced by increasing taxes on tobacco products.

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“…To their credit, there are innumerable examples of social and contextual factors that influence one's risk of antisocial behavior. One obvious example is socioeconomic status (Barkan and Rocque 2018). But there are at least as many examples of contemporary neuroscience embracing the position that socioeconomic and biological domains are interrelated.…”

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