Edwards Lab

Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute

Albuquerque · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2025

Multimodal prediction of behavioral and mental health outcomes in incarcerated women

Project Summary/Abstract Research in psychology and neuroscience has helped deepen our understanding of relationships between mental health issues, social-environmental factors, and maladaptive behaviors contributing to risk for incarceration. Such research holds significant economic implications, as the societal cost of crime in the United States is a staggering $3.2 trillion annually, a sum that exceeds annual expenditures across all national health care. While most of these costs are due to men, incarcerated women represent the single fastest growing segment of the criminal legal population over recent decades. Relative to men, women in the legal system display higher rates of mental…

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