Our research builds the evidence base for policy and practice to improve outcomes for people with histories of criminal justice system involvement.
People with criminal justice system involvement are disproportionately affected by social disadvantage, chronic ill health, preventable disease, mental illness and substance use. We undertake rigorous, policy-relevant research to build evidence for justice health policy and practice. We also co-design interventions to improve outcomes for people with histories of criminal justice system involvement.
We conduct research to better understand the systemic, environmental, social and individual factors contributing to poor health among people with histories of involvement in the criminal justice system. Our work has contributed to policy and practice change nationally.
We build partnerships with people with lived experience, community and health organisations and government, locally, nationally and internationally. We design and co-design evidence-based interventions to improve health and social outcomes for people with criminal justice system involvement.
Our research explores how contact with, and release, from the criminal justice system impacts:
health
health-risk behaviours
psychosocial adjustment
engagement with health services change.
Building and strengthening collaborations with correctional services nationwide, we facilitate translation of our research into effective health policy and service delivery.
We're working with criminalised communities to help end domestic, family and sexual violence.
Partnering to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030.
The Medical Journal of Australia
Jocelyn Chan, M. David Curtis, Rebecca Winter
The Medical Journal of Australia
Rebecca Winter, Mark Stoové
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
M. David Curtis, Paul Dietze, Anna L. Wilkinson, Paul A. Agius, Ashleigh C. Stewart, Reece Cossar, Shelley Walker, Amy Kirwan, Rebecca Winter, Mark Stoové
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Ashleigh C. Stewart, Reece Cossar, Anna L. Wilkinson, Brendan Quinn, Paul Dietze, Shelley Walker, M. David Curtis, Campbell Aitken, Amy Kirwan, Rebecca Winter
Addiction
Reece Cossar, M. David Curtis, Rebecca Winter, Paul Dietze, Anna L. Wilkinson, Ashleigh C. Stewart, Paul A. Agius, Campbell Aitken, Amy Kirwan, Shelley Walker
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
S. Griffin, Anna L. Wilkinson, Rebecca Winter, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoové
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Shelley Walker, Freya Saich, Mark Stoové, Rebecca Winter
Journal of Urban Health
Amy Kirwan, M. David Curtis, Paul Dietze, Campbell Aitken, Emma Woods, Shelley Walker, Amy Kirwan, M. David Curtis, Paul Dietze, Campbell Aitken
Contemporary Drug Problems
Shelley Walker, Mark Stoové, Peter Higgs