Call For Papers: Justice-Involved Veterans & Court-Mandated Systems

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

Publisher: Combat Support Institute (CSI)

Issue: Summer Issue

Publication Date: July 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.

Focus Areas:

• Veterans’ courts, diversion programs, and specialty dockets: access, equity, and outcomes
• Court-mandated treatment, compliance models, and coercive care frameworks
• Incarceration, probation, parole, and supervision systems affecting veterans with disabilities
• Trauma, disability, and due process in criminal, family, and administrative courts
• Ethical, legal, and clinical concerns in coerced, compulsory, or conditional treatment
• Gatekeeping, eligibility criteria, and discretionary power within veterans’ justice pathways
• Institutional bias, procedural harm, and disparate impact on disabled and marginalized veterans
• Risk assessment tools, evaluations, and forensic determinations involving PTSD, TBI, and moral injury
• Intersectionality (race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, family roles) in justice-involved veteran outcomes
• Data practices, compliance metrics, and documentation requirements that create barriers or punishment
• Alternatives to carceral models, restorative justice, and community-based accountability frameworks
• Lived experience, practitioner-scholar, legal advocate, and clinician perspectives
• Oversight, accountability mechanisms, and reform models for court-mandated and correctional systems

Abstract Deadline: March 30

Notification: April 30

Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: May 30

Publication Release: July

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.