Applying a social determinants of health framework, this review brings attention to evidence
from social sciences and neuroscience on the role of selected social factors in individual …

Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-
informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them …

Police violence has increasingly been recognized as a public health concern in the United
States, and accumulating evidence has shown police violence exposure to be linked to a …

Youth exposure to violence increases the risk of poor mental and physical health outcomes
lasting into adulthood. Traumatic stress is an outcome of particular concern as the …

Purpose This study aimed to investigate racial/ethnic disparities in emotional distress during
witnessed police stops among a national sample of urban-born youth. Methods A national …

Rationale and objective In the United States, gun violence claims thousands of lives each
year and is a pressing public health issue. To gain a better understanding of this …

Theories of stress and strain, which emphasize the concentration of social stressors among
vulnerable groups, suggest that police contact—the most common type of criminal justice …

Negative interactions with the legal system can inform adolescents' relationships with
schools. The present daily-diary study examined 13,545 daily survey assessments from 387 …

In response to the changing nature of policing in the United States, and current climate of
police–citizen relations, research has begun to explore the consequences of adolescent …

Recent scholarship has affirmed the importance of overall health and wellbeing for people
exposed to incarceration. Specifically, researchers have begun to ascertain how physical …