Akers / Potter / Hill Epidemiological Criminology

A Public Health Approach to Crime and Violence
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23155-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crimeand Violence
Epidemiological Criminology offers an introduction to thesources and methods of epidemiological criminology and shows how toapply these methods to some of the most vexing problems nowconfronting researchers and practitioners in public healthepidemiology, criminology, and criminal justice.
The book describes, explains, and applies the newly formulatedpractice of epidemiological criminology, an emerging disciplinethat finds the intersection across theories, methods, andstatistical models of public health with their corresponding toolsof criminal justice and criminology. The authors show how to applyepidemiological criminology as a practical tool to addresspopulation issues of violence and crime nationally and globally. Inaddition, they look at future directions and the application ofthis emerging field in corrections, public health and law, gangsand gang violence, victimology, mental health and substance abuse,environmental justice, international human rights, and globalterrorism.
For students, the book presents an exciting approach tounderstanding epidemiology as a means with which to tackle some ofthe worst problems for vulnerable populations. For researchers andpolicymakers, the book offers a new methodological perspective thatrecognizes the significance of social disparities and the builtenvironment as factors in the formulation of public health policy,and provides a tool with which to produce more effectiveinterventions, preventive measures, and policy formulations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akers, Timothy A

Potter, Roberto H

Hill, Carl V

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy A. Akers, M.S., Ph.D., is a professor of public healthand associate dean for graduate studies and research in the Schoolof Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and director of theCenter for Health Informatics, Planning and Policy at Morgan StateUniversity in Baltimore, Maryland.?
Roberto H. Potter, Ph.D., is the director of researchpartnerships at the Department of Criminal Justice, College ofHealth and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida.
Carl V. Hill, M.P.H, Ph.D., is a health scientist administratorand contract officer's representative with the National Institutesof Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of ChildHealth and Human Development.?