Criminal Justice and Global Public Goods

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

Global public goods and health.

Health improvement requires collective as well as individual action, and the health of poor populations in particular requires collective action between countries as well as within them. Initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reflect a growing awareness of this fact. However, initiating, organizing and financing collective actions for health at the global le...

The Media and Public Perceptions of Criminal Justice Policy Issues :

Recent research in criminology has indicated that the media may influence people’s attitudes toward criminal justice policy. This paper examined attitudes toward gun control among a student population using both ideological (attribution styles) and instrumental perspectives (fear of crime), and then tested whether viewing the film Bowling for Columbine influenced those attitudes. The study empl...

Public Health and Criminal Justice Approaches to Homicide Research

Most criminologists acknowledge limited, but acceptable, uses for self-report survey techniques to measure common, non-serious offenses among youth. However, such techniques are likely to be challenged by critics for the study of serious violent crime. In fact, despite the availability of data on self-reports of violence in Monitoring the Future Surveys conducted for over a quarter of a century...

Globalization, global public goods, and health

Globalization is one of the characteristics that define the beginning of the 21st century. Yet, there is no single agreed definition of what it is, and there are widely divergent views of what it means in terms of its economic and social repercussions, including its impact on health. What is clear is that it is a multidimensional process encompassing economic, social, cultural, political, and t...