Bothwell Piason

Social Support and Healthcare Access During Community Reentry Among Individuals on Sex Offender Registries

Bothwell Piason is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. His research lies at the intersection of victimology, corrections and health, justice-involved populations, and international and comparative criminology. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, he examines how the criminal legal system shapes health, victimization experiences, and social support among justice-involved populations and survivors of violence. His work has explored women’s incarceration, healthcare access during community reentry, victimization trajectories, Indigenous women and family violence, and community-engaged approaches to justice research. His scholarship advances theoretical understandings of cumulative victimization and resilience, and he is developing a framework explaining how social support influences healthcare access during reentry through his dissertation involving individuals on sex offender registries. Informed by lived, academic, and community engagement experiences across Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and the United States, his broader research agenda seeks to advance theory and inform policy at the intersection of justice, health, and victimization at local and international levels. His work appears in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Journal of Family Violence, and Temida.