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Journal for Advancing Justice

A Peer-Reviewed Journal for Practical Use

The Journal for Advancing Justice is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that 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. The journal is supported by a grant from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Note: Publication of an article in the Journal for Advancing Justice does not imply All Rise’s endorsement of any specific intervention, assessment, or other practice.

Editor in Chief
Douglas B. Marlowe, JD, PhD

Associate Editor
John R. Gallagher, PhD

Associate Editor
Carolyn Hardin, MPA

Managing Editor
Brooke Glisson

Just Released: "Sustaining Long-Term Recovery as Part of Justice Reform"

Our understanding of recovery, particularly from substance use and mental health disorders, is continuously evolving as research offers new insights into the risks and protective factors that impact the recovery process. This volume of the Journal for Advancing Justice presents articles that add to the knowledge base on how a collaborative relationship among justice, treatment, and social service professionals can help justice-involved individuals sustain their recovery. As we continue to seek improvement and innovation in the justice system and to help individuals impacted by substance use and mental health disorders, these articles demonstrate that we must provide a safe environment for people to heal, promote empowerment through education, and identify the inherent strengths of all the people we serve.

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Previous Volumes

Community Corrections and Recovery

Achieving Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections to Promote Recovery

Published in July 2022, this issue evaluates the impact of several strategies to improve outcomes for individuals involved in the justice system through community corrections, including opioid intervention courts, peer recovery specialists, post-incarceration housing, jail sanctions, and HIV education. In addition to furthering research on these strategies, this volume calls for broadening collective understanding of substance use and mental health disorder recovery. Through a range of articles written by both researchers and practitioners, this issue provides insight and analysis to assist field professionals and scholars alike in identifying promising programs and interventions as well as areas that require further investigation to solidify them as best practices.

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Law Enforcement Deflection

Emerging Best Practices in Law Enforcement Deflection and Community Supervision Programs

Published in January 2021, this issue addresses programs and interventions designed to assist individuals with mental health and substance use disorders who come to the attention of law enforcement and community corrections programs. It also analyzes community supervision practices in an effort to contribute to the research on effective strategies for probation, parole, and pretrial supervision programs. Through a range of articles written by both researchers and practitioners, this issue provides insight and analysis to assist field professionals and scholars alike in identifying promising programs and interventions as well as areas that require further investigation to solidify them as best practices.

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Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Best Practices in the Justice System for Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Published in July 2019, this issue acknowledges some of the very real barriers justice professionals face in deploying clinical best practices in legal settings for justice-involved persons with opioid use disorder, and addresses the profound, misguided and sometimes institutionalized lack of understanding about medication-assisted treatment (MAT). It provides a range of articles, written by both clinicians and justice professionals, that examine thoughtful clinical and legal strategies to enhance outcomes, provide insight into perspectives of and barriers to MAT, and review recent legal precedents that may have far-reaching effects on future criminal and legal cases.

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Submit Your Work for a Future Volume

At any time for consideration in a future volume, authors may submit an abstract or precis of their proposed submission or may submit a full manuscript for review by the editorial board. Abstracts and manuscripts must be submitted using the journal’s online submission form below. The Journal for Advancing Justice seeks original research reports; research-based review articles or meta-analyses; or articles outlining a testable, conceptual paradigm and set of data-based recommendations. Preference will be given to manuscripts containing measurable definitions of long-term recovery from substance use and mental health disorders, as well as manuscripts focused on outcomes for justice-involved individuals that have implications for long-term recovery.

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