Incapacitating Debt: Investigating the Community-Wide Effects of Incarceration on Medical Debt
Published online on June 10, 2026
Abstract
Crime & Delinquency, Ahead of Print.
This study examines the relationship between community incarceration rates and medical debt in the United States using annual county-level data from 2012 to 2019. We account for stable and varying county-level dynamics through fixed effects regression ...
This study examines the relationship between community incarceration rates and medical debt in the United States using annual county-level data from 2012 to 2019. We account for stable and varying county-level dynamics through fixed effects regression ...