PSC Associate, Jason Schnittker, was quoted in a Pittsburg Post-Gazette about older adults being generally positive about their health as they age. “Older people expect some deterioration in health and aren’t thrown off course in the same way when it occurs,” says sociologist Jason Schnittker of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Jason Schnittker, John M. MacDonald and colleagues discuss the long term consequences of mass incarceration in the US in the new Penn SAS magazine Omnia.
Jason Schnittker's newly published study on the correlation between incarceration rates and health care is highlighted in Penn News.
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 2001