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12 Health & Just. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/hlthjs12 and id is 1 raw text is: Baser et al. Health &Justice (2024) 12:1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00257-2 Health & Justice Mental health disparities in young adults with arrest history: a survey-based, cross- sectional analysis Onur Baser' 23 1, Katarzyna Rodchenko4, Yixuan Zeng4,s and Amy Endrizal4 Abstract Background Over 4.53 million arrests were made in 2021 in the United States. People under 26 years of age were more likely to be arrested than older people. Although mental health disparities are prominent in the incarcerated population, the subject has not been closely examined among young adults specifically. Objectives This study examines how criminal justice involvement, specifically arrests, affects the mental health of adults between 18 and 25 years of age. Methods We analyzed secondary data using the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The study used a subsample of 13,494 people aged 18 to 25 years, including 7,330 women and 6,164 men. History of arrest was the key independent variable. Depression, serious mental illness (SMI), substance use, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt were the outcome variables. We performed five multivariate logistic regression models for each outcome variable, controlling for race/ethnicity, income, and education level for men and women separately. Results Of 13,494 respondents, 6.63% had a history of arrest. Among young women, a history of arrest was associated with significantly higher adjusted odds ratios for all mental health concerns. Most notably, a history of arrest increased the likelihood of substance use by a factor of 15.19, suicide attempts by 2.27, SMI by 1.79, suicidal ideation by 1.75, and depression by 1.52. Among young men, a history of arrest was associated with increased adjusted odds ratios (AORs) for substance use (AOR, 13.37; p <.001), suicidal ideation (AOR, 1.45; p=.011), and suicide attempt (AOR, 1.82; p=.044). Conclusions We found a strong relationship between young people having an arrest history and mental health concerns. More specifically, a history of arrest was associated with all mental health concerns among young women, while it was associated with only substance use and suicide among young men. Providing arrestees with appropriate mental health care would benefit them and the criminal justice system by decreasing the odds of recidivism. Keywords Mental health, Arrest history, Criminal justice, Young adults, Disparities *Correspondence: Onur Baser onur.baser@bogazici.edu.tr Department of Economics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye 2Graduate School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA 3University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 4Columbia Data Analytics, New York, NY, USA 5Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA BMC ©The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the articles Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the articles Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directlyfrom the copyright holder.To view a copy ofthis licence, visit http//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http//creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

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