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DESCRIPTION:Courtney Boen is an Associate Professor at Brown University who
 se work aims to uncover the social and political forces generating populat
 ion patterns of health and mortality. Her research combines critical and r
 elational theories of race and racism\, insights from the life course pers
 pective\, and a variety of social demographic techniques to: 1) provide de
 tailed and accurate estimates of population health patterns\; and 2) inter
 rogate and reveal the structural\, institutional\, and sociopolitical dete
 rminants of health inequities.\n\n\n	In this event co-sponsored by the Soci
 ology Department and the Centre on Population Dynamics\, she will deliver 
 a talk\, titled\, 'State Violence & Population Health: The Case of Three S
 trikes Laws & Racialized Patterns of Birth Outcomes in the US.' on March 1
 8.\n	\n	ABSTRACT: While state incarceration policies have received much atte
 ntion in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States
 \, their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain 
 largely unknown. This talk will focus on one particularly notorious state 
 incarceration policy—three strikes—and assess whether\, how\, and why it s
 haped racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US. Using a difference-
 in-differences event study research design that models the dynamic impact 
 of this policy over time\, results show that birth weight outcomes—includi
 ng mean birth weight and low birth weight—for Black infants worsened marke
 dly in the year three strikes policies were adopted. Descriptive analyses 
 of US newspapers and other sources further suggest that three strikes poli
 cies adversely impacted Black birth outcomes through affective mechanisms\
 , by inducing highly racialized\, stigmatizing\, and criminalizing public 
 discourse around the time of policy adoption. She uses the case of three s
 trikes to make a broader argument about the role of state violence in shap
 ing population health patterns in the US and discuss implications for futu
 re research in this area.\n
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LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue
  McTavish
SUMMARY:Sociology Speaker Series / Population Dynamics Seminar Series: Cour
 tney Boen
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/sociology-speaker-series-
 population-dynamics-seminar-series-courtney-boen-370447
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