As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Announcement: COVID-19 impact on peer review
Call for papers: Justice-involved women
The Editors of Health & Justice are seeking submissions for a special issue of the journal exploring the board range of issues of women involved in the justice system, whether incarcerated or in the community.
Edited by Tomer Einat, Department of Criminology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Call for papers: Enhancing the prison environment
This series of articles explores the transformative processes and findings from current efforts to positively alter the prison environment. Articles are welcome from a broad range of perspectives, including but not limited to: the process and methods used for cultural change, the vision for the prison environment, evaluation findings, and the experiences of correctional staff, administrators, and those incarcerated.
Edited by Kevin Wright, Stephanie Morse & Madison Sutton, Arizona State University
COVID-19 Resources
View a list of resources compiled from government agencies, news outlets, and nonprofit organizations, hosted by the Justice Community Opioid and Innovation Network.
Articles
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A call to protect patients, correctional staff and healthcare professionals in jails and prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Emergency department utilization by people living with HIV released from jail in the US South
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Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees
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The relationship between age and suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide among prisoners
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Pregnant women and substance use: fear, stigma, and barriers to care
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Action steps using ACEs and trauma-informed care: a resilience model
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Building effective service delivery mechanisms for justice-involved individuals: an under-researched area
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An examination of the relationship between childhood abuse, anger and violent behavior among a sample of sex offenders
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Mental and physical health in prison: how co-occurring conditions influence inmate misconduct
View our collections
Health & Justice has published a number of thematic series including:
Suicide and self-harm risk in criminal justice involved populations by A Perry
Complex needs in justice-involved populations by S Kinner
Justice-Involved Women by D Morse
Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies by L Gideon
Featured collection: Complex needs in justice-involved populations
People who cycle through the criminal justice system are characterised by a high prevalence of health-related problems, such as substance dependence, mental disorder, infectious and chronic disease, and intellectual disability. These problems are typically set against a backdrop of extreme social disadvantage. This new collection explores the co-occurrence of these needs, something that comparatively few papers have considered so far.
Edited by Stuart Kinner, Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Aims and scope
Health & Justice presents original experimental research on the area of health and well-being of people involved in the adult or juvenile justice system, including people who work in it. Through meta-analyses and systematic reviews about topics at the intersection of public health and criminal justice, the journal fills a gap in the literature presenting protocols and clinical practice guidelines and encouraging translational science, exploring possible ways of introducing innovations in the justice system.
The journal is open to submissions from public health, criminology and criminal justice, medical science, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, anthropology and the social sciences, and covers a broad array of research types.
Health & Justice aims for a broad reach, including researchers across many disciplines as well as justice practitioners, such as judges, prosecutors, defenders, probation officers, treatment providers, mental health and medical personnel working with justice-involved individuals.
Apply for APC funding in social science research
Did you know that there are almost 200 open access article processing charge (APC) funds available to researchers worldwide? Many funding bodies require that research publications resulting from their grants are made freely available to all. By publishing your research with us you fully comply with open access mandates, and the publishing costs may be entirely covered by the research grant. This means that you won’t have to pay any publishing fee and you retain the copyright. Check here how to discover and apply for APC funding.
Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
61 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
51 days to first decision for all manuscripts
141 days from submission to acceptance
14 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
0.609 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.488 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
1.70 - CiteScoreUsage
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270 Altmetric mentions
- ISSN: 2194-7899 (electronic)
