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Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort
Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns...
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Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization: a longitudinal linkage study of people serving federal sentences in Ontario
BackgroundPeople who experience incarceration have poorer health than the general population. Yet, we know little about the health and health service...
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COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston
Research examining the effects of COVID-19 on the criminal legal system—including the demand for police services—is accumulating. However, few...
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health calls for police service
Drawing upon seven years of police calls for service data (2014–2020), this study examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on calls involving...
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Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service
Conventional police databases contain much information on cybercrime, but extracting it remains a practical challenge. This is because these...
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Operationalizing deployment time in police calls for service
Analyses of emergency calls for service data in the United States suggest that around 50% of dispatched police deployment time is spent on...
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Trans-Neutrality in Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision in the USA and Canada
Trans women have distinct dynamics in abusive relationships that cisgender women may not experience (e.g., purposeful misgendering). Therefore, it is...
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Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia
This contribution outlines various spatial and temporal aspects of medical or public-health related calls for service from the public to police in...
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Multi-sector stakeholder consensus on tackling the complex health and social needs of the growing population of people leaving prison in older age
BackgroundAs populations age globally, cooperation across multi-sector stakeholders is increasingly important to service older persons, particularly...
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“…he’s going to be facing the same things that he faced prior to being locked up”: perceptions of service needs for substance use disorders
BackgroundHigh rates of substance use disorders (SUDs) exist among justice-involved populations (i.e., persons incarcerated or recently released)....
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Study protocol and stakeholder perceptions of a randomized controlled trial of a co-response police-mental health team
ObjectivesDescribe the development, results, and stakeholder perceptions of randomization procedures for determining outcomes of a co-response...
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The health effects of gendered and devalued work: health outcomes of incarcerated women engaging in sex work and care/service work
BackgroundWomen with a history of incarceration are often engaged in highly gendered work, either sex work or low-wage care/service work jobs. While...
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Effective Strategies to Enhance Police Service Delivery
Over time, police department responsibilities have expanded from prioritizing order maintenance and law enforcement to routinely encompassing tasks...
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A field-experiment testing the impact of a warrant service prioritization strategy for police patrol officers
The objective of this experiment was to test the efficacy of providing prioritized warrant lists to patrol officers. A field experiment was carried...
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Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity
Researchers have explored the effects of marijuana legalization on a range of outcomes, including crime and public health. Relatively few, however,...
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Impact of County-level health infrastructure on participation in a reform effort to reduce the use of jail for individuals with mental health disorders
BackgroundThe national Step** Up Initiative has attracted over 500 counties interested in reducing the use of jail for individuals with mental...
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Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research Methods, Issues and Innovations
This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health...
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COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research
Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller & Blumstein (2020) outlined a theoretical research program (TRP) oriented around themes of contagion control...
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Training as an opportunity for change: A pretest–posttest study of pre-service correctional officer orientations
ObjectivesTo conduct the first outcome evaluation of pre-service academy training instruction on newly hired correctional officers’ custodial and...
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Association of Health and Victimization with Discrete Group Membership in Offending Frequency: Results from a Sample of Taiwanese Male Prisoners
Health and victimization have been documented as the robust covariates for offending, but limited research examines the relationship among the three...