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

An integrated public health and criminal justice approach to gangs: What can research tell us?

There has been a call to better link public health and criminal justice approaches to best address crime problems generally, and youth and gang violence in particular. Importantly, there has yet to be a systematic examination of how criminal justice approaches can be integrated within a public health framework. This paper examines the strengths and challenges with mapping gang research and evid...

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...

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

Preventing violence and reinforcing human security: a rights-based framework for top-down and bottom-up action.

This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has become a serious public health and security problem. Prior studies have explored the risk factors...

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