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| These factors place young people at risk of a wide range of health problems later in life, including diabetes, heart disease and some cancers; there may also be effects on mental health, including through the stigmatisation of the obese. Gerschick and Miller (1995), in their classic paper on men and disabilities, refer to the marginalisation and stigmatisation of men with physical disabilities in their development of the "Three 'R' Framework," a description of a combination of strategies employed by men to come to terms with masculinity and physical disability. The stigmatisation of imprisonment in the wider community may act to attenuate prisoners' identities as respectable fathers and amplify their criminal identity. |
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