Familial and Former Incarceration and African American Men’s Risk of Obesity


Author:

Tony N. Brown, Julian Culver, and Asia Bento

Summary of Paper:

Objectives: To build upon work addressing the physical health consequences of familial incarceration. Specifically, this study extends findings from a recent study authored by Lee and
colleagues (2014) who report that only women experience poor physical health outcomes as a function of familial incarceration.

Link to Working Paper