Incarceration Exposure
Dimension 976 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Incarceration Exposure measures the extent to which an expression involves jail, prison, arrest, conviction, or related criminal justice involvement affecting the person or people in their close environment. It encompasses direct detention and conviction as well as family or household exposure to imprisonment and police trouble.
evidence final name · Police Contact
Minimal Incarceration Exposure
Expressions activating this band contain little to no clear criminal justice involvement and are largely unrelated to jail, prison, arrest, or conviction. When relevant cues appear, they are incidental, vague, or do not establish meaningful incarceration exposure.
Low Incarceration Exposure
Expressions activating this band refer to legal trouble, police involvement, criminal acts, or coercive violations, but the connection to jail or prison is indirect, occasional, or embedded in broader adverse experiences. The exposure is recognizable as justice-system involvement without centering on incarceration itself.
Moderate Incarceration Exposure
Expressions activating this band explicitly mention arrest, charges, conviction, detention, or jail as a personal legal outcome or as a general topic of criminal punishment. The expression presents incarceration-related involvement as a concrete event or status.
High Incarceration Exposure
Expressions activating this band describe definite jail or prison involvement tied to the person or a close family relation, often including age of conviction, parental imprisonment, or the effects of police trouble on family life. Incarceration is presented as a salient lived circumstance with interpersonal consequences.
Severe Incarceration Exposure
Expressions activating this band center on imprisonment within the household or immediate living environment, using direct references to prison, prisoners, incarceration, custody, or sentence. The expression frames incarceration as an established and defining condition of household experience.
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Anchor definitions
Minimal Police Contact: Expressions show no meaningful police contact content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to police contact.
Emerging Police Contact: Police contact is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. This is the first band where police contact becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band likely reflect police contact at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Elevated Police Contact: Police contact is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where police contact was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect police contact at this level of intensity.
Severe Police Contact: Police contact is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, police contact is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect police contact at this level of intensity.