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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.
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
View a list of resources compiled from government agencies, news outlets, and nonprofit organizations, hosted by the Justice Community Opioid and Innovation Network.
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
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
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.
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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 publication
Citation Impact
0.609 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.488 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
1.70 - CiteScore
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