Lisaann S Gittner
Biographic Data
| ID | 7065535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisaann S Gittner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisaann S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gittner |
| SIGNATURE | GITTNER L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7407-828X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Local Politics and Teenage Firearm Homicide
Firearm homicides are a leading cause of death among American teens. While the impact of gun laws has received attention, the effects of political election outcomes over time as a determinant of health have received far less attention. Teen firearm homicide rates for 2001–2020 are therefore described according to race/ethnicity and mayoral political competition in two peer county groups, each matched for 19 socio-demographic factors. Non-Hispanic…
Structural Violence and Political Competition
When we think about violence in America, what typically comes to mind is the kinetic type of violence, committed by individuals, that takes the form of mass killings. This type of violence is horrific and generates universal revulsion, but there is another type of violence that is less noticeable, and neither captures the full attention of the media nor is a topic that involves policy discussions in a way that mass violence sometimes does. This i…
The Upstream Determinants of Violence
Violence remains a central criminal justice and public health concern, yet policy discussions often narrow analysis to crime, punishment, and individual behavior. A broader framework is needed. Manuscripts in the special issue examine violence as a product of upstream political choices, institutional design, fiscal priorities, fragmented governance, unequal exposure to injury, access to health care, government services availability, and political…
Political Determinants of Health
Deaths of despair (15+ years) are described for two peer county groups. Each county experienced competitive, transitional, or monopoly governance based on the duration of one political party’s control. Highest mortality among non-Hispanic Black (Black) people occurred in monopolies, affecting all age-sex-specific groups from 15–19 to 65–69. Transition to Democratic or Republican party monopolies produced similar overall trends. Governance by the …
County Budget Priorities and Institutional Cycling Between the Criminal Justice and Health Care Systems
County budget priorities shape how local criminal justice systems manage individuals with mental illness when community treatment capacity is limited. Using data from one Texas rural hub county, a 2-year observational analysis paired county budget allocations with hospital emergency department encounters and jail bookings of individuals with serious mental illness. Results showed stable budget priorities favoring correctional and judicial operati…
Lessons From an Interagency Coalition
This study describes the development and evaluation of Better Together, a coalition between law enforcement, first responders, and health care organizations to develop an interagency training for managing justice-involved individuals with mental health issues. In the United States, calls to 9-1-1 and other crisis lines frequently dispatch law enforcement, first responders, and sometimes crisis intervention teams. As these individuals are assessed…
Politics, Partisanship, and Violence
Violence remains a long-standing wicked problem because political, institutional, and fiscal choices shape how violence is defined, measured, and addressed. This special issue synthesizes contributions and uses public health framing to reposition violence as a measurable outcome. We draw together work on deaths of despair, structural violence, firearm homicide, restorative justice, recidivism, institutional cycling, and interagency response to id…
Diversion
This conclusion provides a brief synopsis of the research articles presented in this special edition of The Journal of Contemporary Justice. The research findings clearly demonstrate that when the objective of diversion is sought by diversion-based programs where the criminal justice and health care systems intersect, processes and services frequently break down. As this collection of articles highlights, our collective understanding of diversion…
Perspectives on Diversion in the Criminal Justice and Health care Systems
This introduction offers a primer for this special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. The purpose is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and practitioners to communicate perspectives of criminal justice, criminology, and law; public policy and administration, economics and political science; social work and sociology; behavioral health, counseling and psychology; public health, emergency medicine, and psych…
A Standardized Matrix for Mental Health Diversion Program Reporting
A matrix is proposed to characterize mental health diversion programs and standardize the reporting of program context, outputs, outcomes, and community settings. Data collection for program reporting is challenging because individual programs report on what is relevant to local conditions and may omit or overlook important contextual or structural factors that are key to programmatic success or failure. This limits generalizability and comparabi…
Diversion
There is a distinct lack of a normative theory for diversion of justice-involved individuals with mental illness at the intersection of the criminal justice and health care systems. The nexus where the criminal justice and health care systems are supposed to connect during diversion is not conceptually framed in a measurable way. The paper proposes a potential systems theory of diversion that explicates the overlapping boundaries within and betwe…
VetStar
Justice-involved veterans are a unique subpopulation with different mental health needs in pre-trial diversion than civilians. Veteran diversion can be challenging, creating evaluation issues at the program (i.e., development, implementation, outcomes), and individual (i.e., positive outcomes) levels. A case study of VetStar, a unified approach diversion for veterans spanning both the criminal justice and healthcare systems, is presented as a mod…
Exploration of Preterm Birth Rates Using the Public Health Exposome Database and Computational Analysis Methods
Recent advances in informatics technology has made it possible to integrate, manipulate, and analyze variables from a wide range of scientific disciplines allowing for the examination of complex social problems such as health disparities. This study used 589 county-level variables to identify and compare geographical variation of high and low preterm birth rates. Data were collected from a number of publically available sources, bringing together…
Infant Obesity and Severe Obesity Growth Patterns in the First Two Years of Life
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Infant Obesity and Severe Obesity Growth Patterns in the First Two Years of Life
Exploration of Preterm Birth Rates Using the Public Health Exposome Database and Computational Analysis Methods
Recent advances in informatics technology has made it possible to integrate, manipulate, and analyze variables from a wide range of scientific disciplines allowing for the examination of complex social problems such as health disparities. This study used 589 county-level variables to identify and compare geographical variation of high and low preterm birth rates. Data were collected from a number of publically available sources, bringing together…
VetStar
Justice-involved veterans are a unique subpopulation with different mental health needs in pre-trial diversion than civilians. Veteran diversion can be challenging, creating evaluation issues at the program (i.e., development, implementation, outcomes), and individual (i.e., positive outcomes) levels. A case study of VetStar, a unified approach diversion for veterans spanning both the criminal justice and healthcare systems, is presented as a mod…
Diversion
This conclusion provides a brief synopsis of the research articles presented in this special edition of The Journal of Contemporary Justice. The research findings clearly demonstrate that when the objective of diversion is sought by diversion-based programs where the criminal justice and health care systems intersect, processes and services frequently break down. As this collection of articles highlights, our collective understanding of diversion…
Perspectives on Diversion in the Criminal Justice and Health care Systems
This introduction offers a primer for this special edition of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. The purpose is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and practitioners to communicate perspectives of criminal justice, criminology, and law; public policy and administration, economics and political science; social work and sociology; behavioral health, counseling and psychology; public health, emergency medicine, and psych…
A Standardized Matrix for Mental Health Diversion Program Reporting
A matrix is proposed to characterize mental health diversion programs and standardize the reporting of program context, outputs, outcomes, and community settings. Data collection for program reporting is challenging because individual programs report on what is relevant to local conditions and may omit or overlook important contextual or structural factors that are key to programmatic success or failure. This limits generalizability and comparabi…
Diversion
There is a distinct lack of a normative theory for diversion of justice-involved individuals with mental illness at the intersection of the criminal justice and health care systems. The nexus where the criminal justice and health care systems are supposed to connect during diversion is not conceptually framed in a measurable way. The paper proposes a potential systems theory of diversion that explicates the overlapping boundaries within and betwe…
Local Politics and Teenage Firearm Homicide
Firearm homicides are a leading cause of death among American teens. While the impact of gun laws has received attention, the effects of political election outcomes over time as a determinant of health have received far less attention. Teen firearm homicide rates for 2001–2020 are therefore described according to race/ethnicity and mayoral political competition in two peer county groups, each matched for 19 socio-demographic factors. Non-Hispanic…
Structural Violence and Political Competition
When we think about violence in America, what typically comes to mind is the kinetic type of violence, committed by individuals, that takes the form of mass killings. This type of violence is horrific and generates universal revulsion, but there is another type of violence that is less noticeable, and neither captures the full attention of the media nor is a topic that involves policy discussions in a way that mass violence sometimes does. This i…
The Upstream Determinants of Violence
Violence remains a central criminal justice and public health concern, yet policy discussions often narrow analysis to crime, punishment, and individual behavior. A broader framework is needed. Manuscripts in the special issue examine violence as a product of upstream political choices, institutional design, fiscal priorities, fragmented governance, unequal exposure to injury, access to health care, government services availability, and political…
Political Determinants of Health
Deaths of despair (15+ years) are described for two peer county groups. Each county experienced competitive, transitional, or monopoly governance based on the duration of one political party’s control. Highest mortality among non-Hispanic Black (Black) people occurred in monopolies, affecting all age-sex-specific groups from 15–19 to 65–69. Transition to Democratic or Republican party monopolies produced similar overall trends. Governance by the …
County Budget Priorities and Institutional Cycling Between the Criminal Justice and Health Care Systems
County budget priorities shape how local criminal justice systems manage individuals with mental illness when community treatment capacity is limited. Using data from one Texas rural hub county, a 2-year observational analysis paired county budget allocations with hospital emergency department encounters and jail bookings of individuals with serious mental illness. Results showed stable budget priorities favoring correctional and judicial operati…
Lessons From an Interagency Coalition
This study describes the development and evaluation of Better Together, a coalition between law enforcement, first responders, and health care organizations to develop an interagency training for managing justice-involved individuals with mental health issues. In the United States, calls to 9-1-1 and other crisis lines frequently dispatch law enforcement, first responders, and sometimes crisis intervention teams. As these individuals are assessed…
Politics, Partisanship, and Violence
Violence remains a long-standing wicked problem because political, institutional, and fiscal choices shape how violence is defined, measured, and addressed. This special issue synthesizes contributions and uses public health framing to reposition violence as a measurable outcome. We draw together work on deaths of despair, structural violence, firearm homicide, restorative justice, recidivism, institutional cycling, and interagency response to id…
Economic Justice (7 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works)