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Michael Cao CV

Associate In Research
Sociology
CV

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Duke University • 2024
BA

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Recent Publications


The U.S. Criminal Legal System and Population Health.

Journal Article Current epidemiology reports · January 2025 Purpose of reviewA growing body of research has now identified the criminal legal system as a major social determinant of population health and health disparities in the United States. The current review provides a description of the U.S. criminal ... Full text Cite

Family Cost in the Modern American Carceral State: A Descriptive Study from a North Carolina Jail

Thesis Dissertation · May 12, 2024 The shadow of mass incarceration in the United States casts over the lives of the justiceinvolved, but also, at twilight, over the lives of their families. Drawing on family demography and carceral studies, I study the financial effects of incarceration on ... Link to item Cite

Relations of and between Family Business and Private Enterprise

Journal Article Vertices: Duke's Undergraduate Research Journal · 2023 In this paper, I draw from economic and organizational sociology to study a psychosocial dimension of modern entrepreneurial dynamics. Namely, I employ a mixed-methods approach to the study of family business members in the U.S and their correspond ... Full text Open Access Cite
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