Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline: A Call for A Human Rights Approach

ABSTRACT

This Special Issue is applying a human rights framework to address risk and vulnerability, as well as the implications of trauma across the lifespan from a trauma-informed lens with applied intersectional theory. The intention of this special issue is to identify mixed methods research and literature reviews on the collective impact of trauma and how trauma may be a pathway for justice-involvement. Authors utilized diverse sampling and methodologies with applied psychological, sociological, and criminological theories with particular attention to polyvictimization, and/or history of child abuse and/or history of domestic violence (DV)/interpersonal violence (IPV), and involved with one or multiple institutions. Recommendations encompassed next steps in research among community samples and justice-involved participants, policy, and best practices within our justice and community-based systems to create sustainable programs that are trauma-responsive, culturally sensitive, and gendered interventions to reflect the populations being served.

KEYWORDS:

• abuse-to-prison pipeline
• polyvictimization
• trauma
• trauma sequelae
• intersectionality