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Punishment paradigm versus a public health model

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Kathy Boudin, EdD , Center for Comprehensive Care, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY
This presentation, by a former inmate and current counselor, instructor, and research, will explain the impact of criminalization of people in prison and people who have come home. It will examine language, the punishment paradigm, and collateral punishments; and it will suggest alternatives including restorative practices.

Learning Areas:

Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Other professions or practice related to public health
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Social and behavioral sciences
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Identify the language used that criminalizes people and the alternative language that views people in a holistic and dignified way Demonstrate the positive roles that incarcerated people and people returning to society can and do play in creating a public health model of justice Discuss restorative justice as an alternative to retributive justice

Keyword(s): Prisoners Health, Violence & Injury Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I work with people who have been in solitary confinement, incarcerated, and who have suffered from prison conditions as longtermers. I designed a program with longtermers and researched the impact of incarceration. I have designed curriculum and taught classes about mass incarceration I was incarcerated for more than 2 decades and I have received my doctoral degree and therefore have both direct knowledge and academic knowledge about the issues of this session.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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