Professor Stuart Kinner
Professor of Health Equity and Head, Justice Health Group, School of Population Health, Curtin University; Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne; Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Health & Medicine
People in prison still in COVID-19 lockdown
Sustained COVID-19 lockdowns in prisons weigh on the mental health of people in custody. Are we doing enough to protect them?
Health & Medicine
Prisons are communities too
COVID-19 has exposed the urgent need to reform incarceration systems globally to end overcrowding and improve health care
Health & Medicine
We are leaving people released from prison vulnerable
Research shows that people released from prison are more likely to be the victims of violence, especially those with a mental illness or substance use disorder
Health & Medicine
Preventing a rebound in youth homelessness after COVID-19
Initiatives to protect homeless young people during the pandemic were effective, but we need a long term strategy that delivers better support and helps prevent homelessness
Health & Medicine
Too young for Facebook, old enough for prison?
Children can’t sign up to Facebook until age 13 but in Australia they can be prosecuted for a criminal offence at age ten, and that needs to change