Call For Papers: System Accountability, Policy Reform & Evidence-Based Change

Journal: Journal of Veteran Research & Systems Accountability (JVRSA)

Publisher: Combat Support Institute (CSI)

Issue: Fall Issue

Publication Date: September 30

Scope and Topics:

The Journal of Veteran Research & Systems Accountability (JVRSA) invites original research, policy analysis, and scholarly submissions for its Spring Issue focused on Veterans, Disability & Civil Rights in Institutional Systems. This issue seeks rigorous, evidence-based work examining how institutional systems impact veterans with disabilities and how civil rights frameworks are applied, enforced, or denied.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Focus Areas:

• Correctional healthcare, mental health treatment, and disability accommodations within jails, prisons, and detention facilities
• Probation, parole, monitoring, and compliance regimes as extended systems of control
• Reentry, reintegration, and collateral consequences affecting housing, employment, education, and family reunification
• Trauma, disability, and due process in post-conviction and supervisory systems
• Ethical, legal, and clinical challenges in continued coercive or conditional treatment after sentencing
• Gatekeeping, eligibility determinations, and administrative discretion in reentry and veterans’ service access
• Institutional bias, procedural harm, and cumulative disadvantage across the justice continuum
• Risk management tools, evaluations, and surveillance practices impacting veterans with PTSD, TBI, and moral injury
• Intersectionality (race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, age, family roles) in post-court outcomes
• Data practices, compliance tracking, and information sharing that perpetuate punishment or exclusion
• Alternatives to punitive supervision, restorative justice, and community-based reentry models
• Lived experience, practitioner-scholar, legal advocate, and clinician perspectives
• Oversight, accountability mechanisms, and reform models for correctional and reentry systems

Abstract Deadline: May 30

Notification: June 30

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 30

Publication Release: September


Submission Guidelines:

-Abstracts should be 250–300 words

-Manuscripts must follow APA 7th Edition formatting

-Submissions involving human subjects must document IRB approval or exemption

-Use of the CSI IRB is permitted but not required

-All submissions are subject to double-blind peer review

Publication Information:

JVRSA is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal dedicated to advancing research that evaluates systems affecting veterans and promotes ethical, evidence-based accountability and reform.