TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Rucker C.
AU  - Raphael,Steven
TI  - The effects of male incarceration dynamics on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome infection rates among African American women and men
SN  - 00222186
AV  - HB73 JOU 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - AIDS
KW  - Black people
KW  - Criminal punishment
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - HIV
KW  - Infections
KW  - Men
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Prisons
N2  - This paper investigates the connection between incarceration dynamics and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) infection rates, with particular emphasis on the black‐white AIDS rate disparity. Using case‐level U.S. data spanning 1982-96, we model the dynamic relationship between AIDS infection rates and the proportion of men in the age‐, state‐, and race‐matched cohort that are incarcerated. We find strong effects of male incarceration rates on male and female AIDS rates. The dynamic structure of this relationship parallels the incubation time between human immunodeficiency virus infection and the onset of full‐blown AIDS. These results persist after controlling for year fixed effects; a fully interacted set of age, race, and state fixed effects; crack cocaine prevalence; and flow rates in and out of prison. The results reveal that higher incarceration rates among black males over this period explain the lion’s share of the racial disparity in AIDS infection among women
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/597102
ER  -