Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration

• Glavni autori: Nguyen Toan Tran (Autor), Stéphanie Baggio (Autor), Angela Dawson (Autor), Éamonn O'Moore (Autor), Brie Williams (Autor), Precious Bedell (Autor), Olivier Simon (Autor), Willem Scholten (Autor), Laurent Getaz (Autor), Hans Wolff (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health, wellbeing, and access to health information and services. However, terminology used in policies, programs, and research publications is often de...