A5088426585- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Disaster Response and Management
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Race, History, and American Society
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2015-2024
Kentucky Department for Public Health
2024
University of Miami
2017-2023
Morehouse College
2015
People in prison are particularly vulnerable to infectious disease due close living conditions and the lack of protective equipment. As a result, public health professionals administrators seek information guide best practices policy recommendations during COVID-19 pandemic. Using latent profile analysis, we sought characterize Texas prisons on levels cases deaths among incarcerated residents, staff. This observational study was secondary data analysis publicly available from Department...
Background: Internalized homonegativity may promote substance use among U.S. men who have sex with only (MSMO) and women (MSMW). However, studies produced mixed findings, used non-representative samples, not adequately examined MSMW. Objectives: We investigated (1) internalized in relation to (2) the extent of temporal change MSMO Methods: Using merged 2002, 2006–2010, 2011–2013 cycles National Survey Family Growth—a nationally representative sample persons aged 15–44 years—we acquired...
We examined associations between homonegative attitudes and HIV other sexually transmitted infection (HIV/STI) risk behaviors among active US men.We used the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (n = 10 403) multivariable logistic regression models to examine in relation condom use, number past-year sex partners, HIV/STI testing, STI diagnoses.Among men who had with men, were associated lower odds use during anal women (before past year) testing. Among women, vaginal having 4 or more...
Objective: Explore racial-ethnic disparities in drug charging trajectories from arrest to conviction. Methods: We analyze severity across arrest, filing, and conviction for felony offense cases Miami-Dade County between 2010-2015 (N=25,559) using a “distance traveled” approach by estimating the of charges based on probability incarceration at use these estimates predict examine differences stages. Results: Compared White non-Latinx people, police charge Black Latinx people with crimes that...
ABSTRACT Importance People in prison are particularly vulnerable to infectious disease due close living conditions and the lack of protective equipment. Public health professionals administrators seek information guide best practices regarding population capacity rates for COVID-19 outbreak. Objective Using latent profile analysis, we sought characterize Texas prisons on levels cases deaths among incarcerated residents, staff. Design This observational study was a secondary data analysis...
Abstract Background On July 28, 2022, floods in eastern Kentucky displaced over 600 individuals. With the goal of understanding mental health needs affected families, we surveyed households living flood evacuation shelters after 2022 floods. Methods Families experiencing displacement from currently three different temporary shelter locations were via convenience sampling. A rapid community assessment involving in-person interviews using modified two stage cluster methodology (CASPER) was...
Abstract Objectives On July 28, 2022, eastern Kentucky experienced the state’s deadliest flood in recorded history. In response to ongoing mental health concerns from community members who survived flood, local department directors affected communities requested technical assistance Department for Public Health and Centers Disease Control Prevention. Methods Two simultaneous Community Assessments Emergency Response (CASPERs) were conducted 6 weeks after flood. Four counties assessed each...
This study examines how “outsider” arrests (i.e., that happen in neighborhoods where defendants do not reside) and other covariates impact community-level punishment outcomes. Using census tract-level data on drug, violent, property crime occurring Miami- Dade County (Florida) between 2012 2015, we estimate negative binomial regression models across three key stages (pretrial detention, conviction, incarceration). Our findings suggest with higher levels of cases, concentrated disadvantage,...
Research consistently finds the disproportionate negative health impact of criminal justice system on racial and ethnic minorities. Yet less is known about underlying mechanisms care utilization during community reintegration. We contribute to literature theoretically by integrating two perspectives: network theory social capital multiple disadvantage hypothesis providing a more nuanced explanation service use reentry. identify incarceration history as unique disadvantaged status that...
Our objective is to expand upon the emerging literature that examines role of multiple forms racism in gun ownership and control attitudes among non‐Latino whites. While some these studies, using standard measures racial resentment, speculate about color‐coded nature crime whether this partially motivates ownership, here we specifically consider cognitive apathetic types along with explicit are associated attitudes. In doing so, advance by novel focus on generalized attitudes, not just...
The United States criminal justice system is a predicated on the existence and reification of racism itself. Frequently, black brown men are victims through racial profiling, wrongful arrests, discriminatory sentencing practices. Dedrick Brown experienced all aforementioned practices when he was arrested in 2012, along with Travares Santiago Willie Barney. Through this case study, we seek to illuminate color profiling that takes place largest South Florida system. From racialized...