Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment (The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series)

The Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment covers many topics on the numerous ways in which mental and physical health and criminal justice system contact influence one another and are intricately intertwined.These often mutually reinforcing dynamics affect a range of health and justice outcomes at individual, familial, group, community, and national levels.Contributions detail this topic from a wide range of disciplinary, theoretical, and international perspectives and rely on various analytical lenses, including quantitative, qualitative, policy-analytic, theoretical/conceptual, and lived experiences. The chapters summarize what is known in each topical area, but as important, they identify emerging theoretical, empirical, and policy directions.In this way, the book is grounded in the current knowledge about the specific topic, but also provides new, synthesizing material that reflects the knowledge of the leading minds in the field.Conceptually divided into