Self-stigma of incarceration and its impact on health and community integration

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI:10.1002/cbm.2326

Chelsea E. Brehmer, Sang Qin, Brigette C. Young, David R. Strauser

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Abstract

Background

Individuals returning to the wider community from incarceration face many re-entry barriers, including stigmatising beliefs regarding past criminal record, that have impact on health and re-entry. Understanding the development and impact of self-stigma on health can inform re-entry and rehabilitation services.

Aims

The two aims of this study were first, to evaluate a previously established model of self-stigma applied to individuals who have experienced incarceration and, secondly, to study the impact of self-stigma on physical and mental health as well as community integration on re-entry.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study of 129 formerly incarcerated adults recruited using an online platform and asked to complete online rating scales about self-stigmatisation, health and sense of community integration. Repeated-measures analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and path analyses were used to evaluate the model.

Results

There was support for the four distinct stages of self-stigmatisation apparent in mental health research. There was a relationship between self-stigma harm and sense of community integration, mediated by mental but not physical health status scores.

Conclusion

Our findings add to work on self-stigmatisation in the field of mental health by showing that the concept appears relevant and appears in similar staging among formerly incarcerated individuals and that self-stigmatisation is likely to be important for their community reintegration. Our sample was not typical of the wider prison population for race and gender distribution, in particular having fewer than expected those minority groups likely to be especially vulnerable to stigmatisation by others. Our findings nevertheless suggest that further, preferably, longitudinal research on self-stigma to enable better understanding of pathways could substantially help treatment and rehabilitation of individuals after release from a correctional facility.

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被监禁的自我耻辱感及其对健康和社区融合的影响。

背景：刑满释放后重返社会的人面临着许多重返社会的障碍，包括对过去犯罪记录的污名化观念，这对他们的健康和重返社会都有影响。了解自我污名的形成及其对健康的影响，可以为重返社会和康复服务提供参考。目的：本研究有两个目的，一是评估以前建立的适用于曾经历监禁的个人的自我污名模型，二是研究自我污名对身心健康以及重返社会后融入社区的影响：这是一项横断面研究，通过在线平台招募了 129 名曾被监禁的成年人，要求他们完成有关自我污名化、健康和社区融入感的在线评分量表。研究采用了重复测量方差分析、相关分析和路径分析来评估模型：结果：心理健康研究中明显存在的自我鄙视的四个不同阶段得到了支持。自我鄙视伤害与社区融入感之间存在一定的关系，这种关系由心理健康状况分数而非身体健康状况分数中介：我们的研究结果为心理健康领域的自我污名化研究增添了新的内容，表明了这一概念在曾被监禁者中的相关性和相似性，以及自我污名化对他们重新融入社区的重要性。就种族和性别分布而言，我们的样本在更广泛的监狱人口中并不典型，特别是那些可能特别容易受到他人鄙视的少数群体的人数比预期的要少。尽管如此，我们的研究结果表明，进一步开展有关自我污名化的纵向研究，以便更好地了解自我污名化的途径，这将大大有助于个人从惩教机构释放后的治疗和康复。

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期刊介绍： Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health – CBMH – aims to publish original material on any aspect of the relationship between mental state and criminal behaviour. Thus, we are interested in mental mechanisms associated with offending, regardless of whether the individual concerned has a mental disorder or not. We are interested in factors that influence such relationships, and particularly welcome studies about pathways into and out of crime. These will include studies of normal and abnormal development, of mental disorder and how that may lead to offending for a subgroup of sufferers, together with information about factors which mediate such a relationship.