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justice-involved

justice-involved adjective: having had interactions with the criminal justice system as a defendant.

Adjective

justice-involved (not comparable)

  1. (US) Having had interactions with the criminal justice system as a defendant.
    • Histories of trauma and suicide attempts compound the already complex behavioral health problems experienced by youth involved in the juvenile justice system. It is estimated that between 25 and 31 percent of justice-involved youth have been victims of abuse […]2011, David W. Springer, Albert R. Roberts, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, page 349
    • DDMI has not been tested with a justice-involved population, but its emphasis on incorporating psychiatric conditions and its functionality make it potentially useful for this population.2015, Robert L. Trestman, Kenneth L. Appelbaum, Jeffrey L. Metzner, Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry, page 255

Synonyms of justice-involved

Questions about justice-involved

What does justice-involved mean?
Justice-involved means having had interactions with the criminal justice system as a defendant.
What part of speech is justice-involved?
Justice-involved is an adjective.

Words near justice-involved in the dictionary

  1. justice
  2. justice delayed is justice denied
  3. justice is blind
  4. Justice of the Peace
  5. justice-impacted
  6. justice-involved
  7. justice-like
  8. justiceable
  9. Justiceburg
  10. justiceless
  11. justicelike

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