Health and Corrections
A Public Health Approach to Incarcerated Populations
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 August 2025
- ISBN 9781032479453
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black & white; 11 Line drawings, black & white; 14 Tables, black & white 683
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Short description:
Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.
MoreLong description:
Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.
Presenting a theoretical overview of relevant sociological and public health theories, the book introduces basic concepts, terminology, analytical frameworks, and theories, covering major issues in the domain of public health, public safety, and criminal justice. Addressing incarcerated population health needs in correctional setting, it provides an accessible and panoramic overview of the policy impact of laws on the health of incarcerated individuals. In doing so, the book investigates a variety of topics, including preincarceration and prison-generated trauma, chronic health issues, contagious infectious diseases, and aging in the system. The focus is on four “special-needs populations”: (1) women’s health; (2) mental illness among inmates; (3) elderly and geriatric inmates; and (4) substance abusing inmates. Giving an organizational perspective to the topic of health and corrections, the book also considers violence, public health in the community, access to health services by marginalized individuals, and why it matters to discuss health in prisons, the living conditions in prison, health management, and the health and well-being of those engaged with incarcerated individuals.
Health and Corrections aims to generate an important discussion on the nexus of health and justice and will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, and instructors, as well as for professionals in the field of corrections, criminal justice, and public health and safety.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction –The Nexus between Health and Corrections
2. Basic Concepts and Terminology
3. Theoretical Framework –Sociological and Public Health Theories
4. Special Needs Offenders
Part II: Legal Aspects
5. Constitutional and Legal Cases Relating to Correctional Health
6. Policy Impact of Laws on The Health of Incarcerated Ill Individuals
Part III: Illness and Diseases Behind Bars
7. Illness and Disease Behind Bars: Chronically Ill Inmates
8. Highly Contagious Blood-Borne Diseases: HIV/ AIDS, Viral Hepatitis
9. Highly Contagious & Infectious Airborne Diseases: TB, and the Effects of the COVID19 Pandemic of Jails and Prisons
10. Violence Behind Bars: A Public Health Issue
Part IV: Special Needs Populations
11. The Connection Between Poor Health and Substance Use
12. Women Health Related Needs in Correctional Settings
13. Mentally Ill Behind Bars
14. Changes in Correctional Human Landscape – The Graying of American Prisons
Part V: Conclusion
15. Transition from Corrections to the Community
16. Applying Public Health to Correctional Practices – Saving Communities
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