Heino Stöver
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heino Stöver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heino |
| FAMILY NAME | Stöver |
| SIGNATURE | STÖVER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2456-2775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Violations of the right to food during deprivation of liberty: A global socio-legal assessment of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and…
Despite international and regional human rights norms and assurances, prison inspections revealed that standards and adequacy of food and nutrition in prisons are often lacking due to resource scarcity, violence, punishment, inter-personal dynamics and corruption. UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies and CPT inspections must continue to thoroughly assess food standards and provision in prisons, ensure that the denial or restriction of food as punishment…
Women’s healthcare needs and access across the incarceration pathway in Israel: A qualitative study
This study emphasizes the urgent need for a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and continuity-based approach to healthcare within carceral settings. Our findings support the need for integration of prison health services into the national health system and call for system-wide, cross-sectoral, and human rights-based policy frameworks that promote prevention, rehabilitation, and adequate mental and physical healthcare in prison. Integrating priso…
Understanding the complexities of oral healthcare delivery in correctional settings: A qualitative exploration of barriers, facilitators, and opportunities
Ensuring the oral health of incarcerated individuals is a fundamental aspect of their right to health and a crucial factor in their successful reintegration into society. Formerly incarcerated people are often hard to reach in the community, making the period of confinement a unique opportunity to deliver quality oral healthcare. Given that most incarcerated individuals will eventually return to their communities, providing comprehensive healthca…
Conjugal visitation rights, privileges and standards of provision inside European prisons: A socio-legal study of extant literature
Conjugal visits in prisons remain controversial, with the bulk of literature concentrated in the United States. A socio-legal study mapped and described conjugal visitation rights and provision in prisons in the Council of Europe region, where over half a million are detained. A systematic search and socio-legal assessment of empirical literature, Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) country missions, and European Court of Human Rights j…
Vaccination against emerging and reemerging infectious diseases in places of detention: A global multistage scoping review
Background: Despite the elevated risks of infection transmission, people in prisons frequently encounter significant barriers in accessing essential healthcare services in many countries. The present scoping review aimed to evaluate the state of availability and model of delivery of vaccination services within correctional facilities across the globe. Methods: Following the methodological framework for scoping reviews and adhering to the Preferre…
Vaccines and vaccination in prison settings: Availability and model of service delivery in 20 European countries
Prisons, due to various risk factors, are environments that are conducive to infectious disease transmission, with significantly higher prevalence of infectious diseases within prisons compared to the general population. This underscores the importance of preventive measures, particularly vaccination. As part of the international project "Reaching the hard-to-reach: Increasing access and vaccine uptake among the prison population in Europe" (RISE…
Implementation of Covid-19 vaccination services in prison in six European countries: Translating emergency intervention into routine life-course vaccination
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study describing the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination services in European prisons, suggesting that the expansion of vaccination provision in prison is possible. There is no unique solution that will fit every country but commonalities likely to be important in the design and implementation of future vaccination campaigns targeting PLP emerged. Increased availability of vaccination services in…
Interventions to increase vaccine uptake among people who live and work in prisons: A global multistage scoping review
The objective of this study is to examine interventions implemented to increase vaccine uptake among people who live and work in prisons around the world. Peer‐reviewed and gray literature databases were searched systematically to identify relevant information published from 2012 to 2022. Publications were evaluated by two researchers independently and underwent quality assessment through established tools. Of the 11,281 publications identified t…
Behind bars: Understanding prisoner perception of penitentiary rehabilitation in Kazakhstan”
This study focuses on identifying factors that, from the perspective of prisoners, contribute to positive perceptions of rehabilitation (correction) in prison. A survey was conducted of 645 soon-to-be-released inmates (530 males and 115 females) in five institutions, with questions covering demographics, incarceration details, access to social services, and personal values. The research revealed that male inmates tended to hold more positive view…
Needle and syringe programs in prisons: Does it really matter
A significant proportion of people who inject drugs in prisons (PWIDP) lack access to the necessary treatment, care, and support for their drug use disorder, resulting in a persistent pattern of drug injection within correctional facilities (Dolan et al., 2015). The exorbitant cost of a new syringe in prison (Treloar et al., 2016) often compels PWIDP to resort to sharing needles, even despite their awareness of the associated risks of infection t…
Tobacco harm reduction: Implementation of the concept in social work practice
Smoking remains one of the biggest health issues worldwide. Although social work is supposed to enhance well-being and therefore address smoking, it has been criticized as passive in its stance. In this article, we present tobacco harm reduction as a strategy that can help social work deal with smoking
Leveraging existing provider networks in Europe to eliminate barriers to accessing opioid agonist maintenance therapies for Ukrainian refugees
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused a major refugee crisis, particularly impacting Central and Eastern Europe. Ukraine has one of the highest prevalence rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Europe, which increases the risk of HIV spread due to injection drug use. Opioid agonist maintenance therapies (OAMT) are a gold standard treatment for OUD and the prevention of HIV spread. Refugees who were displaced and previously maintained on OAMT in Ukra…
Me Too: Global Progress in Tackling Continued Custodial Violence Against Women: The 10-Year Anniversary of the Bangkok Rules
On any given day, almost 11 million people globally are deprived of their liberty. In 2020, the global female population was estimated to be 741,000, an increase of 105,000 since 2010. In order to investigate progress in the adoption of the Bangkok Rules since 2010, we conducted a legal realist assessment based on a global scoping exercise of empirical research and United Nations (UN) reporting, using detailed MESH terms across university and UN …
Substance Use and Mental Health during the First Covid-19 Lockdown in Germany: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey
Alcohol, nicotine and THC increased in a subgroup of consumers who reported to have more mental health problems compared to individuals who did not increase their consumption. This increased substance use could, therefore, be understood as a dysfunctional strategy to cope with negative emotions during the lockdown
Women’s right to health in detention’: United Nations Committee Observations since the adoption of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Of…
Approximately 11.7 million people are detained globally, with an observed rise in the female prison population in recent years. A range of human rights treaties, and non-binding minimum standards of care (2016 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules), 2010 Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules)) protect the rights of prisoners. States however h…
Zwischen Haft und Freiheit: Bedarfe und Möglichkeiten einer guten Entlassungsvorbereitung von Drogengebrauchenden
There are huge differences between custody and freedom. In the former, life is dominated by the rhythm of the "total institution of prison" (Goffman), whereas, in the latter, it remains relatively self-determined—even in the case of drug dependency. How can the transition from one to the other be organised in such a way that people who are dependent on drugs suffer the least damage? This volume provides both answers to that question and examples …
Unintended consequences of drug policies experienced by young drug users in contact with the criminal justice systems
The aim of this paper is to assess to what extent prohibitive drug policies hamper the management of drug problems from the perspective of young people who have experience with the criminal justice systems (CJS). Qualitative, in-depth interviews were carried out in six European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK) following a common interview guide to obtain comparative data on the life trajectories of drug experienced…
“My first 48 hours out”: Drug users’ perspectives on challenges and strategies upon release from prison
BACKGROUND: Prisoners report much higher prevalence rates of drug use and more harmful consumption patterns than the general population. People who use drugs have above-average experiences with the criminal justice system in general, and the prison system and subsequent release situations in particular. Release from prison is associated with increased mortality rates among drug users due to the risk of overdose. The EU-funded project 'My first 48…
Covid-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons
This article considers health and human rights implications for people deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 crisis. The health risks of incarceration for individual and community health, particularly in overcrowded and underresourced prisons and detention centers, are well known, but with the COVID-19 pandemic have become a public health emergency. Physical distancing in prisons is hardly manageable, and protective means are poor or lacking. E…
Continuity of care for drug users in prison and beyond: A qualitative insight
Social work in prisons is linked to specific tasks regarding the care for the people who are incarcerated. A multi-country qualitative study was set up to explore drug users’ and professionals’ perceptions of continuity of care in prison and beyond. It has been pointed out that continuity of care is associated with different barriers, especially regarding social work. Nevertheless, good practice examples do exist and could be implemented by socia…
Offering HCV treatment to prisoners is an important opportunity: Key principles based on policy and practice assessment in Europe
Prison is an important location to detect, address and treat HCV infection in people who may be underserved for healthcare and find it difficult to navigate community treatment pathways. This is often related to problems with OUD and resulting social inequity. HCV management in prisons must be improved. Policy and clinical practice guidance must be set to promote treatment, and practical steps to make treatment easy should be followed including e…
Prison Health Care Governance: Guaranteeing Clinical Independence
Clinical independence is an essential component of good health care and health care professionalism, particularly in correctional settings (jails, prisons, and other places of detention), where the relationship between patients and caregivers is not based on free choice and where the punitive correctional setting can challenge optimal medical care. Independence for the delivery of health care services is defined by international standards as a cr…
Emerging Issues in Prison Health
The perfect storm: Incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Insufficient access to harm reduction measures in prisons in 5 countries (PRIDE Europe): A shared European public health concern
Using a score of adherence to WHO/UNODC recommendations, the estimated environmental infectious risk remains extremely high in the prisons of the 5 European countries assessed. Public health strategies should be adjusted to comply with the principle of equivalence of care and prevention with the general community
Dual Loyalty in Prison Health Care
Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and training in medical ethics and prisoner human rights. All …
Prison Health Care Governance: Guaranteeing Clinical Independence
Clinical independence is an essential component of good health care and health care professionalism, particularly in correctional settings (jails, prisons, and other places of detention), where the relationship between patients and caregivers is not based on free choice and where the punitive correctional setting can challenge optimal medical care. Independence for the delivery of health care services is defined by international standards as a cr…
Covid-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons
This article considers health and human rights implications for people deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 crisis. The health risks of incarceration for individual and community health, particularly in overcrowded and underresourced prisons and detention centers, are well known, but with the COVID-19 pandemic have become a public health emergency. Physical distancing in prisons is hardly manageable, and protective means are poor or lacking. E…
The transfer of harm-reduction strategies into prisons: Needle exchange programmes in two German prisons
Ten years of experience with needle and syringe exchange programmes in European prisons
Sozialer Ausschluss, Drogenpolitik und Drogenarbeit — Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten akzeptanz- und integrationsorientierter Strategien
Die gesellschaftlichen Bedürfnisse nach Rausch und Veränderung des Wachbewusstseins erstrecken sich jenseits von Legalität/Illegalität auf ein offenbar immer breiter werdendes Spektrum von Drogen: Alkohol, Tabak, Biodrogen, Designer-Drogen, Alkopops, Kokain/Crack, eine große Auswahl an Cannabisprodukten und zuletzt „nicht-stoffgebundene Räusche und Süchte“. Die großen gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen — kurz skizziert als „Pluralisierung von Leben…
Sucht und Männlichkeiten
Betrachtet man die Epidemiologie zur Verteilung der von psychoaktiven Substanzen abhängigen Menschen in Deutschland, fällt deutlich die vermehrte Betroffenheit bei Männern auf. Gleichzeitig bestehen wenig Versorgungsangebote mit männerspezifischen Ansätzen. Der Zusammenhang von Suchtentwicklung und Männlichkeitskonzepten ist auch wissenschaftlich nur rudimentär ausgearbeitet. Diese Publikation zielt darauf, den Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Pr…
Sucht und Männlichkeiten: Entwicklungen in Theorie und Praxis der Suchtarbeit
Sucht und Männlichkeiten: Entwicklungen in Theorie und Praxis der Suchtarbeit
The impact of substitution treatment in prisons—A literature review
Gefängnismedizin: Medizinische Versorgung unter Haftbedingungen
Dual Loyalty in Prison Health Care
Despite the dissemination of principles of medical ethics in prisons, formulated and advocated by numerous international organizations, health care professionals in prisons all over the world continue to infringe these principles because of perceived or real dual loyalty to patients and prison authorities. Health care professionals and nonmedical prison staff need greater awareness of and training in medical ethics and prisoner human rights. All …
Illicit drugs in Central Asia: What we know, what we don’t know, and what we need to know
Insufficient access to harm reduction measures in prisons in 5 countries (PRIDE Europe): A shared European public health concern
Using a score of adherence to WHO/UNODC recommendations, the estimated environmental infectious risk remains extremely high in the prisons of the 5 European countries assessed. Public health strategies should be adjusted to comply with the principle of equivalence of care and prevention with the general community
The perfect storm: Incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Emerging Issues in Prison Health
Prison Health Care Governance: Guaranteeing Clinical Independence
Clinical independence is an essential component of good health care and health care professionalism, particularly in correctional settings (jails, prisons, and other places of detention), where the relationship between patients and caregivers is not based on free choice and where the punitive correctional setting can challenge optimal medical care. Independence for the delivery of health care services is defined by international standards as a cr…
Offering HCV treatment to prisoners is an important opportunity: Key principles based on policy and practice assessment in Europe
Prison is an important location to detect, address and treat HCV infection in people who may be underserved for healthcare and find it difficult to navigate community treatment pathways. This is often related to problems with OUD and resulting social inequity. HCV management in prisons must be improved. Policy and clinical practice guidance must be set to promote treatment, and practical steps to make treatment easy should be followed including e…
Zwischen Haft und Freiheit: Bedarfe und Möglichkeiten einer guten Entlassungsvorbereitung von Drogengebrauchenden
There are huge differences between custody and freedom. In the former, life is dominated by the rhythm of the "total institution of prison" (Goffman), whereas, in the latter, it remains relatively self-determined—even in the case of drug dependency. How can the transition from one to the other be organised in such a way that people who are dependent on drugs suffer the least damage? This volume provides both answers to that question and examples …
Unintended consequences of drug policies experienced by young drug users in contact with the criminal justice systems
The aim of this paper is to assess to what extent prohibitive drug policies hamper the management of drug problems from the perspective of young people who have experience with the criminal justice systems (CJS). Qualitative, in-depth interviews were carried out in six European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK) following a common interview guide to obtain comparative data on the life trajectories of drug experienced…
“My first 48 hours out”: Drug users’ perspectives on challenges and strategies upon release from prison
BACKGROUND: Prisoners report much higher prevalence rates of drug use and more harmful consumption patterns than the general population. People who use drugs have above-average experiences with the criminal justice system in general, and the prison system and subsequent release situations in particular. Release from prison is associated with increased mortality rates among drug users due to the risk of overdose. The EU-funded project 'My first 48…
Covid-19—The Case for Rethinking Health and Human Rights in Prisons
This article considers health and human rights implications for people deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 crisis. The health risks of incarceration for individual and community health, particularly in overcrowded and underresourced prisons and detention centers, are well known, but with the COVID-19 pandemic have become a public health emergency. Physical distancing in prisons is hardly manageable, and protective means are poor or lacking. E…
Continuity of care for drug users in prison and beyond: A qualitative insight
Social work in prisons is linked to specific tasks regarding the care for the people who are incarcerated. A multi-country qualitative study was set up to explore drug users’ and professionals’ perceptions of continuity of care in prison and beyond. It has been pointed out that continuity of care is associated with different barriers, especially regarding social work. Nevertheless, good practice examples do exist and could be implemented by socia…
Substance Use and Mental Health during the First Covid-19 Lockdown in Germany: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey
Alcohol, nicotine and THC increased in a subgroup of consumers who reported to have more mental health problems compared to individuals who did not increase their consumption. This increased substance use could, therefore, be understood as a dysfunctional strategy to cope with negative emotions during the lockdown
Women’s right to health in detention’: United Nations Committee Observations since the adoption of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Of…
Approximately 11.7 million people are detained globally, with an observed rise in the female prison population in recent years. A range of human rights treaties, and non-binding minimum standards of care (2016 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules), 2010 Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules)) protect the rights of prisoners. States however h…
Leveraging existing provider networks in Europe to eliminate barriers to accessing opioid agonist maintenance therapies for Ukrainian refugees
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused a major refugee crisis, particularly impacting Central and Eastern Europe. Ukraine has one of the highest prevalence rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Europe, which increases the risk of HIV spread due to injection drug use. Opioid agonist maintenance therapies (OAMT) are a gold standard treatment for OUD and the prevention of HIV spread. Refugees who were displaced and previously maintained on OAMT in Ukra…
Me Too: Global Progress in Tackling Continued Custodial Violence Against Women: The 10-Year Anniversary of the Bangkok Rules
On any given day, almost 11 million people globally are deprived of their liberty. In 2020, the global female population was estimated to be 741,000, an increase of 105,000 since 2010. In order to investigate progress in the adoption of the Bangkok Rules since 2010, we conducted a legal realist assessment based on a global scoping exercise of empirical research and United Nations (UN) reporting, using detailed MESH terms across university and UN …
Vaccination against emerging and reemerging infectious diseases in places of detention: A global multistage scoping review
Background: Despite the elevated risks of infection transmission, people in prisons frequently encounter significant barriers in accessing essential healthcare services in many countries. The present scoping review aimed to evaluate the state of availability and model of delivery of vaccination services within correctional facilities across the globe. Methods: Following the methodological framework for scoping reviews and adhering to the Preferre…
Political science (21 works) · Criminology (20 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Prison (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (15 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Public health (12 works) · Environmental health (11 works)