The "Best of Both Worlds": Building a community‐academic partnership for research with legal system‐impacted individuals.
Equitable community‐academic research partnerships provide an innovative way to advance health outcomes among criminal legal system‐impacted individuals. The extant literature lacks accounts that detail the process for developing such partnerships, particularly in community‐based (rather than carcer...
| Published in: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 76; no. 3/4; pp. 195 - 207 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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