Jason Schnittker, UPenn, DuPRI speaker Thurs. Dec. 6 at 3:30p

Jason Schnittker, UPenn, will be the DuPRI speaker. His talk, “Systems of Care and Systems of Corrections: Spillover Effects from Incarceration to Health Care,” will take place at 3:30pm in room 111 Social-Sciences on Thursday Dec. 6. 

Incarceration research catalogues its direct negative impact on former inmates and their families, though the effects of punishment clearly spill over to affect broader economic and political institutions as well. To further expand the scope of incarceration research, this study examines spillover effects between state-level incarceration rates and the functioning of the U.S. health care system. ...more