Objectives

In this study, we investigate the mechanisms, timing, and types of the relationship between paternal criminal justice involvement and children’s health.

Methods

Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 5622), we leverage the natural experiment embedded in a sibling-comparison design that adjusts for all confounding factors shared by siblings.

Results

The results show a significant association between paternal criminal justice involvement and poorer children’s health, even when such involvement occurred before children’s birth. This association becomes more pronounced when paternal criminal justice involvement took place close to children’s birth. Furthermore, the association varies depending on the type of paternal criminal justice involvement.

Conclusion

These findings contribute to our understanding of the collateral consequences of criminal justice involvement, revealing that the impact can commence as early as the initial arrest and is exacerbated by subsequent conviction and incarceration.

中文翻译：

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父亲刑事司法参与与儿童健康关系的机制、时机和类型：兄弟姐妹比较分析

目标

在本研究中，我们调查了父亲刑事司法参与与儿童健康之间关系的机制、时间和类型。

方法

利用国家青少年至成人健康纵向研究 ( N = 5622) 的数据，我们利用兄弟姐妹比较设计中嵌入的自然实验来调整兄弟姐妹共有的所有混杂因素。

结果

结果表明，父亲的刑事司法参与与儿童的健康状况较差之间存在显着关联，即使这种参与发生在儿童出生之前。当父亲在孩子出生前后参与刑事司法时，这种关联变得更加明显。此外，这种关联因父亲参与刑事司法的类型而异。

结论

这些发现有助于我们理解刑事司法参与的附带后果，表明这种影响早在最初逮捕时就已经开始，并因随后的定罪和监禁而加剧。