LeMasters Katherine, McCauley Erin, Brinkley-Rubinstein Lauren
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 8th Floor, Academic Office 1, Mailstop B180, 12631 E 17th Ave, 80045, Aurora, CO, USA.
Health Justice. 2024 Jul 17;12(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s40352-024-00286-5.
While criminal legal involvement is a structural determinant of health, both administrative and national longitudinal cohort data are collected and made available in a way that prevents a full understanding of this relationship. Administrative data are both collected and overseen by the same entity and are incomplete, delayed, and/or uninterpretable. Cohort data often only ask these questions to the most vulnerable, and do not include all types of criminal legal involvement, when this involvement occurs in someone's life, or family and community involvement. To achieve a more optimized data landscape and to facilitate population-level research on criminal legal involvement and health, (1) individual administrative level data must be made available and able to be linked across carceral systems, (2) a national data archive must be made to maintain and make criminal legal data available to researchers, and (3) a nationally representative, longitudinal study focused on those with criminal legal involvement is necessary. By beginning to critically think about how future data could be collated and collected, we can begin to provide more robust evidence around how the criminal legal system impacts the health of our society and, in turn, create policy reform.
虽然刑事法律介入是健康的一个结构性决定因素，但行政数据和全国纵向队列数据的收集与提供方式却妨碍了对这种关系的全面理解。行政数据由同一实体收集和监管，存在不完整、延迟和/或难以解读的问题。队列数据通常只对最弱势群体询问这些问题，并且不包括所有类型的刑事法律介入情况、这种介入在某人生活中的发生时间，以及家庭和社区的介入情况。为了实现更优化的数据格局，并促进针对刑事法律介入与健康的人群层面研究，（1）必须提供个体行政层面的数据，并使其能够在不同监禁系统之间建立关联；（2）必须建立一个国家数据档案库，以维护刑事法律数据并向研究人员提供这些数据；（3）有必要开展一项针对有刑事法律介入经历者的全国代表性纵向研究。通过开始批判性地思考未来数据的整理和收集方式，我们能够开始围绕刑事法律系统如何影响我们社会的健康提供更有力的证据，进而推动政策改革。
