Deanne Fitzgerald is currently acting as Aboriginal Service Design Officer with the Department for Community Development. Deanne's job involves the development of Aboriginal specific services in Western Australia. Hector O'loughlin Hector is a Wongi/Noongar man having links to the SouthWest Goldfields area of Western Australia. He is presently the Senior Mediation Officer with the Aboriginal Al...

Employment is a key to community reintegration for both people with mental illness and those with justice involvement. At present, the empirical literature on employment services for justice-involved people with or without mental illness is meager. By contrast, an extensive evidence base documents the effectiveness of a specific employment model for people with severe mental illness: the Indivi...

The commitment to social justice is an essential feature of professional nursing practice (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2008). Social justice involves critically evaluating major determinants of health, including an individual’s personal attributes, acquired health behaviors, health care accessibility, as well as social, economic, and cultural resources and environments (Reutter...

INTRODUCTION Black male youth are at high risk of homicide and criminal justice involvement. This study aimed to determine how early mortality among youth offenders varies based on race; gender; and the continuum of justice system involvement: arrest, detention, incarceration, and transfer to adult courts. METHODS Criminal and death records of 49,479 youth offenders (ages 10-18 years at first...

To be effective, criminal justice policies should affect the underlying social norms for which the policies were enacted. This study sought to determine whether public perceptions of criminal justice policies on domestic violence affected social norms. Two waves of data were collected via a telephone survey where a random probability sample of 973 residents was drawn from 4 communities. A struc...

"Restorative Justice" has emerged internationally as a viable response to the harm caused by crime. Its acceptance and promotion are underscored by the fact that the United Nations has adopted a set of principles that encourage use of restorative justice programming by member states. In addition, the Council of Europe supports its use in criminal matters while the American Bar Association promo...

139 For the last several decades, a global environmental justice movement has challenged the disproportionate burden that environmental degradation and pollution have had on the health and well-being of communities of color and low-income communities. The struggle for environmental justice by people of color, who bear the brunt of pollution in the United States and around the world, has escalat...

Citation: Sastry S, Zoller HM, Walker T and Sunderland S (2017) From Patient Navigation to Cancer Justice: Toward a Culture-Centered, CommunityOwned Intervention Addressing Disparities in Cancer Prevention. Front. Commun. 2:19. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2017.00019 From Patient navigation to cancer Justice: Toward a culture-centered, community-Owned intervention addressing Disparities in cancer Prevention

As a neuroscientist working in the Department of Justice for the past year, I observed that many of the challenges of crime and justice have solutions rooted in our understanding of neuroscience. However, the neuroscience community seems absent from conversations regarding these solutions.