Health & Justice

Health & Justice presents research and commentary on the health and well-being of people involved or working in the justice system. The journal welcomes original research, systematic reviews, implementation science, study protocols and clinical practice guidelines. We encourage translational science to explore health innovations in the justice system.
Health & Justice aims for a broad reach, including researchers, justice practitioners, prosecutors and defenders, probation officers, law-enforcement, treatment providers, plus mental health and medical personnel working with justice-involved individuals. The journal is open to submissions from varied disciplines and covers a broad array of research topics: public health, criminology and criminal justice, medical science, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, anthropology and the social sciences.

Prof. Lior Gideon, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
Lior Gideon, PhD, is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration. He has been involved in several large-scale studies examining prison-based treatment programs, detoxification and rehabilitation, violence against medical staff in non-psychiatric hospitals and the nexus between health and justice, all of which have led to numerous impactful articles and book chapters. Dr. Gideon also has extensive experience in statistics, having served as Head of Statistics and Research in the Israeli Court Administration’s research department.

Currently he is engaged in comparative and international criminal justice research including: a needs-assessment for incarcerated female offenders; motivation assessment of jail inmates to enter and participate in jail-based treatment programs; public opinion surveys on rehabilitation and reintegration of released offenders, and social support mechanisms in the reintegration process. . Among his major book publications are Substance Abusing Inmates (2010), Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry & Reintegration (2011), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences (2012) and Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions (2013), and Correctional Management and the Law (2017). His most recent book titled Health and Corrections: A Public Health Approach to Incarcerated populations, Routledge Publishers, is scheduled to come out in 2025.

Assoc. Prof. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Duke University, USA
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She is a national expert in examining how the criminal legal system impacts people, families, and communities. During the pandemic, she co-founded the COVID Prison Project, one of the only national data projects that tracks and analyzes COVID testing, cases, and deaths in prison systems across the country. She utilized the infrastructure of the COVID Prison Project to recently launch the Third City Project—a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded big data project that tracks and aggregates publicly available health and health policy data from carceral systems.

Additionally, Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein is the PI of several NIH and foundation grants focused on substance use, HIV prevention, and mortality. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of AJPH that explored how mass incarceration is a socio-structural determinant of health and more recently was invited by the National Academy of Medicine to attend its Annual Emerging Leaders Forum. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, CNN, Science Magazine, and other media outlets. Her work blends research and policy, which has recently culminated in providing expert consultation to congress relevant to
prison standards and data reporting.