All Rise is now accepting submissions for the sixth volume of the Journal for Advancing Justice: “Implementation Research in the Justice System: Strengthening the Real-World Delivery of Effective Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Practices.”

The Journal for Advancing Justice is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for practical use. It provides justice and public health professionals, policymakers, academics, scholars and researchers a forum to share evidence-based and promising practices on pressing issues facing the justice system today.

About Volume VI

Decades of research in treatment courts and other justice programs have identified dozens of best practices shown to protect public safety, improve treatment and justice system outcomes, and conserve scarce public resources. However, many practices identified as effective in controlled studies or specific settings are not implemented widely or reliably in routine operations. Implementation research examines how services are delivered in real-world settings, identifies service barriers and approaches for overcoming those barriers, and evaluates the degree to which the services achieve reliably safe and effective results across a range of programs and contexts.

The next volume will report on evaluations of real-world efforts to enhance practice implementation in justice programs serving persons with serious and persistent substance use, mental health, and/or trauma disorders and other severe treatment or social service needs, such as unstable housing, traumatic brain injury, or low recovery capital.

How to Submit

Authors may submit an abstract or precis of their proposed submission or may submit a full manuscript for consideration by the editorial board. Abstracts and manuscripts must be submitted using the journal’s online submission form.

• Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2025
• Manuscript submission deadline: February 1, 2026

Click below to view past volumes, discover priority topics for publication, and get details about the submission process.