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Christopher Wildeman

Christopher Wildeman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
13354
World Ranking
2134
National Ranking
1028

Overview

Christopher Wildeman is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily addresses issues within the social sciences, psychology, and health professions, with a focus on overlapping subfields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, safety research, and accounting.

The main topics explored in this scientist's work include:

  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Christopher Wildeman has published extensively in a number of academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • American Journal of Public Health
  • CrimRxiv
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science Advances
  • Children and Youth Services Review

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wildeman demonstrate a focus on child welfare, criminal justice, and related health outcomes. Notable publications include:

  • Cumulative Rates of Child Protection Involvement and Terminations of Parental Rights in a California Birth Cohort, 1999-2017 (2021) in American Journal of Public Health
  • Cumulative Prevalence of Confirmed Maltreatment and Foster Care Placement for US Children by Race/Ethnicity, 2011-2016 (2020) in American Journal of Public Health
  • Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Exposure to the US Criminal Legal System and Well-Being: A 2018 Cross-Sectional Study (2020) in American Journal of Public Health
  • Solitary confinement placement and post-release mortality risk among formerly incarcerated individuals: a population-based study (2020) in The Lancet Public Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sara Wakefield
  • Youngmin Yi
  • Lars Højsgaard Andersen
  • Frank Edwards
  • Alexander F. Roehrkasse

Best Publications

  • Mass incarceration, public health, and widening inequality in the USA.

    Christopher Wildeman;Christopher Wildeman;Emily A Wang

  • The Black Family and Mass Incarceration

    Bruce Western;Christopher Wildeman

  • Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage

    Christopher Wildeman

  • Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality

    Sara Wakefield;Christopher James Wildeman

  • Lifetime Prevalence of Investigating Child Maltreatment Among US Children

    Hyunil Kim;Christopher Wildeman;Melissa Jonson-Reid;Brett Drake

  • Paternal Incarceration and Children's Physically Aggressive Behaviors: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

    Christopher Wildeman

  • The prevalence of confirmed maltreatment among US children, 2004 to 2011.

    Christopher Wildeman;Natalia Emanuel;John M. Leventhal;Emily Putnam-Hornstein

  • Incarceration in fragile families.

    Christopher Wildeman;Bruce Western

  • Mass imprisonment and racial disparities in childhood behavioral problems

    Sara Wakefield;Christopher Wildeman

  • Despair by Association? The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers:

    Christopher Wildeman;Jason Schnittker;Kristin Turney

  • Tragic, but not random: The social contagion of nonfatal gunshot injuries

    Andrew V. Papachristos;Christopher Wildeman;Elizabeth Roberto

  • Mental and Physical Health of Children in Foster Care

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Redefining Relationships: Explaining the Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Mass Imprisonment and Inequality in Health and Family Life

    Christopher Wildeman;Christopher Muller

  • Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

    Christopher Wildeman

  • Positive, Negative, or Null? The Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Children’s Behavioral Problems

    Christopher Wildeman;Kristin Turney

  • Cumulative risks of foster care placement by age 18 for U.S. children, 2000-2011.

    Christopher Wildeman;Natalia Emanuel

  • A Heavy Burden: The Cardiovascular Health Consequences of Having a Family Member Incarcerated

    Hedwig Lee;Christopher Wildeman;Emily A. Wang;Niki Matusko

  • As fathers and felons: explaining the effects of current and recent incarceration on major depression.

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman;Jason Schnittker

  • Detrimental for Some? Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Child Wellbeing

    Kristin Turney;Christopher Wildeman

  • Children of the prison boom

    Sara Wakefield;Christopher Wildeman.

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin Turney
Kristin Turney University of California, Irvine
Hedwig Lee
Hedwig Lee Washington University in St. Louis
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University
Andrew V. Papachristos
Andrew V. Papachristos Northwestern University
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel Columbia University
Daniela Golinelli
Daniela Golinelli RAND Corporation
Craig Haney
Craig Haney University of California, Santa Cruz
Melissa Jonson-Reid
Melissa Jonson-Reid Washington University in St. Louis
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amy C. Justice
Amy C. Justice Yale University

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