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Courtney Boen is an Associate Professor at Brown University whose work aims to uncover the social and political forces generating population patterns of health and mortality. Her research combines critical and relational theories of race and racism, insights from the life course perspective, and a variety of social demographic techniques to: 1) provide detailed and accurate estimates of population health patterns; and 2) interrogate and reveal the structural, institutional, and sociopolitical determinants of health inequities.

In this event co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Centre on Population Dynamics, she will deliver a talk, titled, "State Violence & Population Health: The Case of Three Strikes Laws & Racialized Patterns of Birth Outcomes in the US." on March 18.

ABSTRACT: While state incarceration policies have received much attention 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鈥攖hree strikes鈥攁nd assess whether, how, and why it shaped 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鈥攊ncluding mean birth weight and low birth weight鈥攆or Black infants worsened markedly in the year three strikes policies were adopted. Descriptive analyses of US newspapers and other sources further suggest that three strikes policies 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 strikes to make a broader argument about the role of state violence in shaping population health patterns in the US and discuss implications for future research in this area.