1st Edition
Health and Corrections A Public Health Approach to Incarcerated Populations
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 and Infectious Airborne Diseases: TB, and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on 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 Setting
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
Biography
Lior Gideon is Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, at John Jay College in New York; a Faculty Member of the CUNY Graduate and Doctoral program in Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice; and Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Hofstra University. Among his major book publications are Substance Abusing Inmates (2010), Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry & Reintegration (2011), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences (2012), Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions (2013), and Correctional Management and the Law (2017). Further, Dr. Gideon is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief for an international journal titled Health & Justice.
