ArticleAcademic pediatrics
United States Youth Arrest and Health Across the Life Course: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study.
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- Reducing Youth Legal System Involvement: Updates From the Field and a Call to Action.Academic pediatrics · 2026Review
- Which Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences are most Strongly Associated with Young Peoples' Arrests and Convictions?Adversity and resilience science · 2026Article
- A framework for understanding adverse adolescent experiences.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Childhood Behind Bars: Children and the US Juvenile Legal System.Advances in pediatrics · 2024Review
- Policy solutions to eliminate racial and ethnic child health disparities in the USA.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2024Review
- Parents' Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Adolescent Cannabis Misuse Scale: Longitudinal Associations with Substance Use, Mental Health, and Social Determinants of Health in Early Adulthood.Substance use & misuse · 2023Article
- Pediatric Health and System Impacts of Mass Incarceration, 2009-2020: A Matched Cohort Study.Academic pediatricsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundYouth are arrested at high rates in the United States; however, long-term health effects of arrest remain unmeasured. We sought to describe the sociodemographic characteristics and health of adults who were arrested at various ages among a nationally representative sample.
methodsUsing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we describe sociodemographics and health status in adolescence (Wave I, ages 12-21) and adulthood (Wave V, ages 32-42) for people first arrested at age younger than 14 years, 14 to 17 years, and 18 to 24 years, compared to never arrested adults. Health measures included physical health (general health, mobility/functional limitations, death), mental health (depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts), and clinical biomarkers (hypertension, diabetes). We estimate associations between age of first arrest and health using covariate adjusted regressions.
resultsAmong the sample of 10,641 adults, 28.5% had experienced arrest before age 25. Individuals first arrested as children (ie, age <14) were disproportionately Black, compared to White. Compared to individuals never arrested, people arrested before age 25 had more depressive symptoms and higher rates of suicidal thoughts during adolescence. Arrest before age 25 was associated with worse self-reported health, higher rates of functional limitations, more depressive symptoms, and greater mortality by adulthood (ages 32-42).
conclusionsArrest before age 25 was associated with worse physical and mental health--and even death in adulthood. Child arrest was disproportionately experienced by Black children. Reducing arrests of youth may be associated with improved health across the life course, particularly among Black youth, thereby promoting health equity.
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