15th Academic & Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health

The submission Deadline has passed. Thank you all for your submissions.

CONFERENCE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Learn about emerging research at the intersection of health and criminal justice and gain skill in designing applied research and program evaluation
  • Network with a multidisciplinary group of participants concerned with the acquisition of new knowledge in criminal justice health practices 
  • Gain new skills to develop academic-correctional health partnerships and overcome barriers to research in your institution
  • Reflect on emerging health policy issues in criminal justice health

PRESENTATION TYPES AND DESCRIPTIONS
 

  • 60 minute presentations: Intended for facilitated panels, policy presentations, or research skills training designed for audience engagement. Only a small number of 60 minute presentations will be accepted. 
  • 30 minute presentations: Intended for extensive presentations which engage more audience input. Examples might include research methods presentations or completed research which will have policy and practice implications.  
  • 15 minute presentation: Intended for concise 13- minute presentation on completed research or research in progress with 2 minutes of Q&A
  • Poster Presentation: The poster format may be used for submissions of research results or other types of communications, e.g. policy, works in progress, research methods, practice transformation, etc.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The conference accepts proposed presentations or posters for consideration on any area of criminal justice health (see list of potential tracks below)
 
  • Community reentry
  • Implementation Science and Clinical Translation
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Mental Health
  • Policy 
  • Practice Redesign 
  • Primary Care 
  • Public Health 
  • Research
  • Ethics of Clinical Practice and Research 
  • Specific Populations (e.g. women, geriatrics, LGBTQ, veterans)
  • Substance Use Disorders
  • Infections from Injection Drug Use (HIV, HCV)
  • Community based participatory research
  • Clinical controversies on health care delivery behind bars
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission Guidelines for 30-Minute and 60-Minute Presentations
The abstract committee takes several factors into account when ranking your submission; depending on the nature of the topic and presentations, some of these factors will be relevant to the reviewers:
  • How relevant and specific the topic is to criminal justice health
  • The scientific strength of the submission
  • The expertise of the authors on the topic
  • How unique/new the topic/content is
  • How well written the abstract is
  • How well the teaching design/plan for use of time matches the goal and content of the session
  • The degree and nature of planned audience participation.


Submission Guidelines for 15-Minute Papers

· These categories are intended for streamlined presentation of research results.

· The author(s) should submit a structured abstract with the following mandatory sections:

· Title

· Background

· Research goal(s) and/or question(s) or hypothesis(es)

· Methods

· Results

· Limitations (if any)

· Conclusions

While we will accept submissions for which results are pending or preliminary, these submissions will not be ranked as highly as submissions that are complete.

Submission Guidelines for Posters
If submitting a poster of research results, the abstract should follow the “Submission Guidelines for 15-Minutes Papers” above. If submitting a poster with a different type of communication, the abstract should follow “Submission Guidelines for 30-Minute and 60-Minute Presentations” above (except that the factor regarding “teaching design/plan for use of time” may be ignored).

 

GLOSSARY OF SUGGESTED TERMS

The Board of Directors of ACCJH is conscious of stigmatizing terminology which is often used to describe justice involved persons and populations. As such, we are promoting person- first language which we believe is more humanizing, to describe people who are involved in the criminal justice system. We support recommendations by the Osborne Association and seek to eliminate stigmatizing language in conference print materials, proceedings and presentations. To that end, we ask proposers to exclude the terms below from their proposals and presentations, substituting them with the suggested (or similar) terms.

 

Terms to be avoided                                                                  Preferred terms

Convict, Con, Inmate, Prisoner                                                       Person who is incarcerated

Offender, Criminal                                                                         Person in pre-trial or with charge

Parolee                                                                                        Justice-involved person

Ex-Con                                                                                         Formerly incarcerated person

Parolee                                                                                         Person on parole or probation