Health Affairs Justice Or Public Health ? Perspective : Violence Prevention : Criminal

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

Justice Or Public Health ? Perspective : Violence Prevention : Criminal

Perspective Violence Prevention : Criminal Justice Or Public Health ?

10. Public Policy of Crime and Violence Prevention: Regional and National Approaches

Policy makers have several complementary approaches at their disposal with which to address crime and violence. Sector-specific approaches—such as criminal justice, public health, and conflict transformation/human rights—have a role to play, as do cross-sectoral approaches, such as crime prevention through environmental design and citizen security. The criminal justice approach is the most wide...

Strengthening the collaboration between public health and criminal justice to prevent violence.

Over the last two decades in the United States, I, public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers have charted new territory by increasingly using public health strategies to understand and prevent youth violence, which has traditionally been considered a criminal justice problem. The utilization of public health approaches has generated several contributions to the understanding a...