Law calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law: Responsible Conduct of Research

Within the context of a shifting research environment, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law is inviting authors to submit new manuscripts that address the responsible conduct of research (RCR). Scientific research is conducted in a significantly different environment than it was 20 – or even 10 – years ago. Among the most notable changes are: new technologies that both yield highly novel results and decrease the transparency of the methods used; the increased pressure on academic researchers to secure intellectual property rights to their research; and interdisciplinary research efforts that are conducted collaboratively across the globe. These changes raise new challenges and questions about modern research practices. 

Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to:

• How technology contributes to the occurrence, or detection, of research misconduct.

• Whether the incidence of falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism or other problematic research practices is increasing.

• Whether contemporary peer review processes are adequate for assessing journal submissions or whether alternative methods should be used (e.g., open peer review).

• How RCR policies from federal agencies, including those ones from NSF and NIH, are affecting research practices.

• How federal regulations, including those from the U.S. Public Health Service relating to fCOI, are affecting research communities.

• Whether recent community RCR guidelines, such as the Singapore Statement, adequately address the challenges emerging from a highly interdisciplinary and international research environment.

Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words.  Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.  Authors should adhere as closely as possible to the Journal’s publication guidelines:  http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html. Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than August 1, 2013 to Dr. Levi Wood: LBWOOD(at)PARTNERS(dot)ORG. The email subject line should read JPSL-RCR. Accepted manuscripts will be published online in December 2013/January 2014.

Call for Manuscripts for a Special Issue of Women and Health: Infectious and Other Disease Morbidity and Health Equity Among Incarcerated Adolescent and Adult Women

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013

You are invited to submit a manuscript for publication consideration in a proposed special issue of Women and Health—a peer reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis.
Description: Women are the fastest growing prison population—surpassing men in prison population growth in the United States. Women at risk for incarceration frequently come from populations with higher rates of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis. In addition, female prisoners are likely to have experienced physical or sexual violence, and two-thirds are mothers of minor children. This call invites papers presenting current research on disparities in infectious diseases or other diseases among incarcerated women, gender-related life concerns (e.g., marriage and partnering, pregnancies, parenting and child custody, homelessness, food insecurity, education, and job status/employment) inside and outside of correctional facilities, contextual and other issues related to becoming a prisoner, and programs and services for women in jails, prisons, and on parole. We hope to capture the most current and relevant work on adolescent and adult women that will serve as a resource for criminal justice agencies, institutions and organizations, law schools, legal services, health professionals serving women prisoners, schools of criminology and public health, other educators, social service agencies, researchers and many others dedicated to providing programs and other services in correctional facilities and beyond.

The following is a list of potential content areas (other topics will be considered also):

1. Sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection and other infectious disease (TB and viral hepatitis) epidemiology, screening and treatment among women in jails and prisons. What other diseases are prevalent among women in correctional settings and what kinds of treatments are available? Which screenings are provided routinely upon intake?

2. Racial/ethnic disparities in infectious diseases among female detainees.

3. Pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, and custody issues for women under correctional supervision.

4. Female victims of physical and sexual violence in jails and prisons.

5. Mental illness and substance abuse among female prisoners.

6. Social Determinants of health for women in jails and prisons, including poverty and lack of educational and economic opportunities.

7. Is health equity for jailed women possible? What constitutes health equity in these settings? Best practices for health equity in jails and prisons.

8. Reentry into society for women and recommendations for reentry. Are plans for follow-up care for women and girls with health concerns implemented? Are best practices for follow-up care available?

9. Gender vulnerability in correctional facilities.

10. Special concerns for transgendered persons.

11. Variation in national and state regulations for women’s health issues (e.g., shackling during pregnancy, availability of HIV medicines, etc.).

12. Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health services in correctional settings. Is enrollment into health care a component of release activities?

For further information, contact Tanya Telfair LeBlanc, PhD, Corresponding Guest Editor via e-mail at: tqs3@cdc.gov or via phone at: (404) 639-2976.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Criminal Justice Studies: Public Health & Criminal Justice

Submission deadline: August 1, 2013

Criminal Justice Studies is a quarterly journal that publishes theoretical, empirical and interpretive studies of crime and criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Studies is calling for innovative papers on “Public Health & Criminal Justice” for a special topics issue of the journal that will be published mid-2014. This issue will rely on the World Health Organization’s long-standing definition of health as, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. The intent of this issue is to explore salient themes in which public health and criminal justice systems intersect.

Topic may include, though are not limited to, the effects of deinstitutionalization, police interactions with the mentally ill, chronic health conditions and correctional healthcare, reentry of the mentally ill, and the health needs of special populations (e.g. juveniles, elderly, transgender).

All manuscripts should be submitted in English, follow APA style, be double-spaced throughout, including references, tables and indented quotations, and cannot be under consideration by another publication. An abstract not to exceed 200 words must be included with submissions.

Send to:

Hayden Smith, Guest Editor
Criminal Justice Studies
University of South Carolina
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
1305 Greene St
Columbia SC 29205
Phone: 803.777.6538
Email: Smithhp@mailbox.sc.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences and Law: Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web

Behavioral Sciences and Law invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue on Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web. The Web has fundamentally changed the way we participate politically, socially and culturally within a complex network of dispersed communities. Although there is a substantial literature on the web and related law and public policy, fewer articles have examined the implications of the web for persons with disabilities and over the life course. Moreover, there is an ongoing debate in academic, legal, and policy circles about the reach and breadth of web accessibility technical standards and performance criteria, and their application under national laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, and international conventions such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In addition, there are evolving privacy and security considerations, copyright and ownership issues, and issues of free speech and censorship. To address these and other topics, this special issue aims to provide a resource for academics and researchers, legal and social advocates, online service providers, educators and employers, and policymakers interested in emerging legal and policy issues associated with the full and equal enjoyment of the web by persons with disabilities.

We invite conceptual, legal, and empirical papers on disability, law and policy and the web. Papers from multiple perspectives and novel as well as established disciplines are welcome, such as psychology, sociology, political science, education, business and management, healthcare, vocational rehabilitation, engineering, disability studies, cognitive science, computer science and design, human-computer interaction, and public policy and law.

Papers should be no longer than 30 pages, inclusive of all tables, figures and references. Shorter research notes and focused commentary (no longer than 15 pages in total) are welcome. References should be in American Psychological Association style, although a legally-oriented paper may use the Bluebook Uniform System of Citation. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013. Please send two electronic copies of the submission, one blinded for peer review, to John Petrila, J.D., LL.M., University of South Florida (jpetril1@health.usf.edu) or Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D., Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University (pblanck@syr.edu), the guest editor for this special issue.

Behavioral Sciences & the Law is a peer reviewed journal that provides current and comprehensive information from throughout the world on topics at the interaction of the law and the behavioral sciences. Appealing to academics, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, the journal balances theoretical, legal, and research writings to provide a broad perspective on pertinent topics.

Call for Papers: Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed papers representing the science and practice of risk for violence and fear-inducing behavior. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is a forum for scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field. The first issue of the journal will appear in Spring 2013.

The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management will be an international periodical for professionals and scholars whose work focuses on operational aspects of threat assessment and management.

The journal will be unique in three ways.

First, it will be devoted exclusively to the subject of violence risk.

Second, it will be applied in nature, dealing with the development, implementation, and evaluation of procedures for assessing and managing violence risk.

Third, it will both reflect and promote the values of interdisciplinarity and internationalism, based on the view that preventing violence requires collaborations that cross professional and, in many cases, geopolitical boundaries.

Being published by APA connects Journal of Threat Assessment and Management to a large body of authoritative and high-quality research available through PsycARTICLES®, the most used full-text database in psychology and one of the most popular databases in all scholarly disciplines and fields. PsycARTICLES is available to a global audience of nearly 3,200 institutions and 60 million potential users.

The Journal of Threat Assessment and Management is now accepting submissions on topics such as:

Targeted violence
Threats against public figures
Stalking
Intimate partner and family violence
Terrorism
Group violence
Sexual violence
Workplace, school, and campus violence
Assessment instruments and procedures
Management strategies and tactics
Threat assessment teams and units
Operational issues
Professional issues
Legal issues
Best practices

In addition to empirical reports of original research, we encourage submissions in the form of conceptual, theoretical, procedural, or legal reviews; case studies illustrating critical issues; and scholarly or professional comments and debates.

Call for Papers for a Special Symosium of Reason Papers: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

Fall 2014 Symposium: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined? How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency? How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations?

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing annually each fall. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles, symposia, and discussion notes of previously published articles. All manuscripts submitted for consideration as Articles are subject to a blind peer-review process (see Submissions page for instructions), and all contributions are subject to internal editorial review. Not limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, social/political, and legal philosophy, we also run essays on epistemology, aesthetics, art history, and classics.