Purpose – Women in prison throughout the world experience higher rates of mental and
physical illness compared with the general population and compared with men in prison. The …

Background: During the transition between prison and community, people are at greatly
increased risk for adverse health outcomes. This study describes a peer health mentoring …

Background: In Canada, the number of women sentenced to prison has almost doubled since
1995. In British Columbia, the rate of reincarceration is 70% within 2 years. Our aim was to …

Purpose Currently, people leaving prisons face concurrent risks from the COVID-19
pandemic and the overdose public health emergency. The closure or reduction of community …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development, by incarcerated
women who were members of a prison participatory health research team, of a survey tool …

Several recent collaborations between correctional facilities and community health organizations
and community education organizations have enabled incarcerated women to access …

Context Primary care is the ideal setting for chronic disease prevention and screening (CDPS);
however, evidence-based approaches are inconsistently applied and physicians lack the …

Applying the visual arts and educational media to Criminology is an original approach to
scholarship and social change. The thesis project combines a conventional print-based thesis …

As the profile of restorative justice in tertiary education grows, this research examines the
impact of Canada’s most long-standing undergraduate, restorative justice course. This …

This editorial is in two parts; the first introduces the broad range of papers that comprise the
issue while the second part is a contribution from our co-editor Robert Greifinger, inspired by …