Book description
Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crime and Violence
Epidemiological Criminology offers an introduction to the
sources and methods of epidemiological criminology and shows how to
apply these methods to some of the most vexing problems now
confronting researchers and practitioners in public health
epidemiology, criminology, and criminal justice.
The book describes, explains, and applies the newly formulated
practice of epidemiological criminology, an emerging discipline that
finds the intersection across theories, methods, and statistical
models of public health with their corresponding tools of criminal
justice and criminology. The authors show how to apply epidemiological
criminology as a practical tool to address population issues of
violence and crime nationally and globally. In addition, they look at
future directions and the application of this emerging field in
corrections, public health and law, gangs and gang violence,
victimology, mental health and substance abuse, environmental justice,
international human rights, and global terrorism.
For students, the book presents an exciting approach to understanding
epidemiology as a means with which to tackle some of the worst
problems for vulnerable populations. For researchers and policymakers,
the book offers a new methodological perspective that recognizes the
significance of social disparities and the built environment as
factors in the formulation of public health policy, and provides a
tool with which to produce more effective interventions, preventive
measures, and policy formulations.
Timothy A. Akers, M. S., Ph. D., is a professor of public health and
associate dean for graduate studies and research in the School of
Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and director of the Center
for Health Informatics, Planning and Policy at Morgan State University
in Baltimore, Maryland.?
Roberto H. Potter, Ph. D., is the director of research partnerships
at the Department of Criminal Justice, College of Health and Public
Affairs at the University of Central Florida.
Carl V. Hill, M. P.H, Ph. D., is a health scientist administrator and
contract officer's representative with the National Institutes of
Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development.?
