Roundtable: The Intersection of Public Health and Criminal Justice

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

We will discuss multiple public health approaches and issues across criminal justice sectors. Topics include: Community factors that predict the provision of public health services within drug courts, applying a public health approach based on fetal and infant mortality review to homeless death reviews, the role of treatment with low level offenders and how to balance that need with due process, health and behavioral health status of victims of crime, and delivering substance abuse treatment in a jail setting.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Chair

• Deborah Koetzle, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Discussants

• Leah E. Daigle, Georgia State University

• Wendy P. Guastaferro, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Courtney Bryan, Center for Court Innovation

• Natalie Kroovand Hipple, Indiana University

• Laura Lutgen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice