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

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, termin...

Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - November 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nguyen Toan Tran, St éphanie Baggio, Angela Dawson, Éamonn O’Moore, Brie Williams, Precious Bedell, Olivier Simon, Willem Scholten, Laurent Getaz and Hans Wolff Tags: Debate Source Type: research