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(Im)Balancing Acts: Criminalization and De-Criminalization of Social and Public Health Problems
Keon L Gilbert1, Robert S Chang2
1SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, MO, USA.
Abstract:
Racially disparate policing, prosecution, and punishment harm individuals, families, and communities. These practices must be understood within the context of the development of the criminal legal system as a means of racialized social control. This context permits a critical examination of the way criminalization has been and is still deployed to subject poor and racialized communities to systemic injustices. This commentary frames a call for interventions to integrate a health justice approach to ensure that they advance racial and health equity to promote the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.
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