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Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

Call for Papers: IJPDS Focus Issue on People and the Criminal Justice System (10/30/26)

People who have contact with the criminal justice system experience disproportionate social and health disadvantage both prior to and following their justice involvement, compared to the broader community. Achieving equity in areas such as health, housing, and education among people with justice system involvement should be a global priority. Simultaneously, the need to reduce offending and recidivism is central to improving public safety, strengthening justice system legitimacy, and reducing future victimisation.

Across jurisdictions worldwide, criminal justice policy is frequently shaped by political considerations rather than rigorous empirical evidence. Growing availability of population-based administrative data sources (including linkages across sectors) allow researchers the opportunity to generate actionable evidence that can improve not only health, wellbeing, and social outcomes for people with justice system contact, but also justice-related outcomes including recidivism, victimisation patterns, and other crime and public safety measurements.

This Focus Issue will provide a platform for high-quality research with the broad aims to:

  1. Reduce social and health inequities, as well as improve outcomes, for people with current, past, or potential future justice system involvement including outcomes directly related to crime, victimisation and justice system performance.
  2. Improve community safety, reduce recidivism, and strengthen the fairness, effectiveness, and legitimacy of criminal justice responses.

All manuscripts that align with these aims and sit within the scope of the journal are welcome. We encourage empirical and methodological research as well as reviews. We are especially interested in manuscripts which use multi-sectoral data linkage (e.g. corrections, law enforcement, courts, probation/community corrections, health, housing, education, child protection, social services, employment) to address health and social inequalities as well as key crime and justice outcomes such as reoffending, desistance, victimisation, procedural justice, diversion effectiveness, supervision outcomes, or system-level decision making.

Ensuring we showcase a diversity of perspectives is critical to appropriately achieve the aims of this issue. To do so, we encourage submissions from researchers who:

  • Are, or work with, people with lived/living experience of the criminal justice system.
  • Represent a broad range of disciplines including criminology, public health, psychology, epidemiology, law, economics, and other social and health science disciplines.
  • Engage directly with criminal justice policy, reform, system performance, or interventions aimed at reducing crime and harm.
  • Are located in low- and middle-income countries.

Submission Deadline: 30th October 2026

To Submit Your Manuscript, Click Here

Population Structures and Dynamics, and Social Change: Studies in Honor of Antonio Golini (10/31/26)

This thematic series of Genus advances comparative population research by bringing together original contributions on demographic transitions, structural population change, and their social, economic, and policy implications across diverse world regions. In a context marked by persistent low fertility, population ageing, increased mobility, and widening inequalities, the series highlights the need for rigorous, internationally comparative research capable of linking national demographic trajectories to global processes.

The collection is conceived in honor of Professor Antonio Golini, a leading figure in Italian and international demography. Golini’s work consistently combined detailed empirical analysis with a strong comparative orientation, often using the Italian experience as a lens to interpret broader demographic dynamics. His legacy includes pivotal contributions to the institutional consolidation of demography in Italy, the diffusion of demographic knowledge, and the dialogue between scientific research and public policy.

Building on this intellectual tradition, the series provides a forward-looking forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that address contemporary demographic challenges while engaging with long-standing debates in population studies.

Topics of interest include:

  • Demographic transitions and structural population change
  • Fertility decline and recovery in low-fertility societies
  • Population ageing, welfare regimes, and intergenerational inequality
  • Mortality differentials and health inequalities
  • Internal and international migration and redistribution
  • Population mobility and labor market dynamics
  • Ageing and socio-economic sustainability across development contexts
  • Demographic change, economic development, and policy responses
  • Methodological advances in population analysis

Types of contributions: 

  • Original research articles
  • Conceptual and methodological papers
  • Invited essays reflecting on Golini’s scientific legacy and its relevance today

Guest edited by:

  • Prof. Graziella Caselli, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Prof. Viviana Egidi, Sapienza University of Rome

Call for Abstracts: 2026 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (05/31/26)

The Call for Abstracts is now open for the 2026 International Conference on Aging in the Americas (ICAA). The conference will be held on September 24–25, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois, and will center on the theme Aging and Health in the Americas. We invite abstract submissions from emerging and early-career scholars in the social sciences, particularly those whose work focuses on Latino health and aging. Abstracts are due by May 31, 2026. All emerging scholars will also have the opportunity to participate in a mentored publication program. Submit your abstract here: https://forms.gle/oLd2RovyFZkts42G6
Questions: a.reyes@cornell.edu