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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, J.D., Ph.D.

Associate Editor
John R. Gallagher, Ph.D.

Associate Editor
Carolyn Hardin, M.P.A.

Managing Editor
Brooke Glisson

Now Accepting Submissions for Volume VI

The Journal for Advancing Justice invites manuscripts for Volume VI, “Implementation Research in the Justice System: Strengthening the Real-World Delivery of Effective Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Practices.” This 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.

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Previous Volumes

Sustaining Long-Term Recovery for Justice-Involved Individuals

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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Community Corrections and 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

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

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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Now Accepting Submissions for Volume VI

“Implementation Research in the Justice System: Strengthening the Real-World Delivery of Effective Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Practices”

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 Journal for Advancing Justice invites manuscripts for Volume VI reporting 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.

The submission deadline for abstracts is December 1, 2025. The submission deadline for manuscripts is February 1, 2026.

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  • Step 1: Download and review the full call for submissions to learn more about content parameters and priority topics.
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