Restoring Justice: From Punishment to Public Health

Crime and punishment: is "justice" good public policy?

Dysfunctional features of American penology are mitigated somewhat by the application (though uneven) of modern science. Unfortunately, these advances do not address major flaws in the ideas on which the system is erected. These include retribution, proportional punishment, and all-or-none notions of criminal responsibility. We propose abandoning retribution for its own sake; making punishment ...

Restoring Health to Health Reform: Integrating Medicine and Public Health to Advance the Population's Wellbeing

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 1778 I. THE CONCEPTUAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMPORTANCE OF AN INTEGRATED HEALTH SYSTEM ........................................... 1783 A. Historical Interconnections .................................................. 1784 B. The Rationale for Integration .............................................. 178...

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

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...

Restoring health to health reform.