Title Epidemiological criminology : a public health approach to crime and violence / Timothy A. Akers, Roberto H. Potter, Carl V. Hill

Edition 1st ed Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, ©2013

Table of Contents
	Figures and Tables					xi
	Preface					xiii
	Acknowledgments					xxiii
	The Authors					xxix
	Introduction: Crime, Criminal Justice, Health, and Victims					xxxiii
	Levels of Theoretical Analysis					xxxiv
	Why the Meso Is Important					xxxvii
	Revising the Epidemiological Trinity					xliii
	Hosts, Agents, Agency, and Behavior					xlviii
	Risk, Deviance, Crime, and Health					l
	Summary					lv
pt. ONE	FOUNDATION FOR AN EMERGING PARADIGM: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY
ch. 1	Establishing a Historical Framework for Epidemiological Criminology					3
	The War on Poverty					6
	The War on Crime					11
	The War on Drugs					18
	The War on Terror					22
	Conclusion					24
	Summary					24
ch. 2	Where Two Worlds Collide: Toward an Integrated Theory of Epidemiological Criminology					27
	Roots and Forks in the Road					28
	History					29
	Determining When or Where to Start an Investigation					31
	Defining an Emerging Paradigm					35
	Epidemiological Criminology					47
	Conclusion					50
	Summary					52
ch. 3	The Lexicon of Terminology: Developing an Emerging Paradigm					57
	Scientific and Practice Integration: Building an Emerging Paradigm					59
	Theories and Models: An Integrative Paradigm					60
	Theories and Models: Framing the Paradigm					64
	Units of Analysis					68
	Health and Crime: Biomedical and Behavioral Disparities					69
	Prevention Interventions					70
	Causation: The Epidemiologic Triad					72
	Conclusion					73
	Summary					73
pt. TWO	THEORIES, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS
ch. 4	Criminology, Criminal Justice, and the Social Sciences					79
	Criminology					79
	Criminal Justice					80
	Where Does That Leave Epidemiological Criminology?					81
	Public Health					82
	Lessons from the Foundation of Sociology					89
	Conclusion					92
	Summary					92
ch. 5	Research Methods in Epidemiology and Criminology: A Bridge Between?					95
	Surveillance or Monitoring?					96
	Monitoring, Surveillance, and Epidemiological Criminology					99
	Method, Technique, and Theory					100
	The Evidence Base					102
	In the Field and on the Streets					103
	Conclusion					104
	Summary					104
ch. 6	Integrating the Interdisciplinary Sciences: Theoretical Foundations of the Epidemiological Criminology Framework					107
	Criminogenics: The Evidence Base of Individual Criminal Behavior					108
	Propensity Versus Typology: How Changeable Are Criminogenics?					109
	Dynamic Risks					110
	Implications for Public Health Interventions					113
	Social Learning and Social Structure: Moving Evidence to the Next Social Levels					113
	Epidemiological Criminology Implications for Public Health Interventions					118
	Conclusion					121
	Summary					122
pt. THREE	APPLYING EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY IN PRACTICE AND POLICY
ch. 7	Health Disparities and Epidemiological Criminology					129
	Health Disparities					132
	Conceptualizing Criminogenic Health Disparities					137
	Conceptualizing Epidemiological Criminology and Disparities					141
	Conclusion					143
	Summary					144
ch. 8	Incarceration and Epidemiological Criminology					147
	The Organizational Ecology of Incarceration					149
	Incarceration by Police					152
	Juvenile Detention: A Snapshot					155
	The Process of Incarceration					156
	The Epidemiology of Incarceration: The Importance of Process					162
	Criminal Records					164
	Conclusion					166
	Summary					166
ch. 9	The Health of Correctional Populations					169
	Competing Images: Magic Castles and Houses of Horror					169
	Juvenile Detention					171
	Jail					172
	Health of Jail Inmates					173
	Health of Prisoners					176
	HIV: An Exemplar of Where One Looks and How					178
	Reentry to the Community					190
	Implications for Epidemiological Criminology					192
	Conclusion					193
	Summary					193
ch. 10	Recidivism and Epidemiological Criminology					197
	Why Measure Recidivism?					198
	Defining and Measuring Recidivism					199
	How Much Recidivism?					201
	Who Returns to Prison?					204
	Jails and Recidivism					205
	Health Recidivism					206
	Conclusion					208
	Summary					209
ch. 11	Gang Violence and Adolescent Membership					213
	Biopsychosocial and Environmental Determinants					214
	Micro-, Meso-, and Macroinfluences					218
	Epidemiology of Gangs and Gang Violence					221
	An Integrated Approach					226
	Health Behavior and Criminal Behavior					228
	Biomedical Disparities and Behavioral Disparities					230
	Conclusion					232
	Summary					232
ch. 12	Criminality, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health: An Epidemiological Criminology Framework					237
	Criminalization					237
	Mental Illness, Crime, and Criminal Justice					239
	Mental Illness and Epidemiological Criminology					243
	Substance Abuse					244
	Substance Abuse and Epidemiological Criminology					246
	Conclusion					249
	Summary					250
ch. 13	Victims and Victimization					255
	Victims and Victimology					256
	The Academy Discovers Victims					258
	The Role of Place: Geography and Victimization					259
	Routine Activities					259
	The Health Industrial Complex Discovers Victims					260
	Measuring Victims					262
	Violence and Epidemiological Criminology					264
	Conclusion					265
	Summary					266
pt. FOUR	FUTURE DIRECTION AND TRENDS
ch. 14	Environmental Justice and the Epidemiology of Crime					271
	What Is Environment? What Is Justice?					273
	The Traditional Epidemiological Approach: What Is Missing?					275
	Segregation and Health					277
	Residential Segregation and Criminal Behavior					281
	Environmental Justice and Epidemiological Criminology					283
	Conclusion					285
	Summary					285
ch. 15	Global and Domestic Terrorism					289
	Epidemiology of Terrorism					291
	Epidemiological Criminology as an Integrated Paradigm					294
	Biopsychosocial and Environmental Makeup of Terrorism and Terrorists					297
	Micro-, Meso-, and Macroinfluences					300
	Health Behavior and Criminal Behavior					302
	Biomedical Disparities and Behavioral Disparities					304
	Conclusion					306
	Summary					306
ch. 16	Criminal Law, Public Health Law, and the Epidemiological Criminology Framework					311
	Criminal Law, Public Health Law, and Social Control					314
	Whose Interests?					321
	Law and Epidemiological Criminology					325
	Values					326
	Conclusion					330
	Summary					331
ch. 17	International Human Rights and Human Trafficking					335
	What Is a Right?					335
	Does the Epidemiological Criminology Framework Fit Human Rights?					338
	A General Model of Trafficking					340
	Trafficking Networks					343
	Individual Traffickers and Individual Victims					344
	Responding to Human Trafficking from an Epidemiological Criminology Framework					347
	Conclusion					348
	Summary					349
	References					353
	Further Reading					387
	Index					391

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : crime, criminal justice, health, and victims -- Establishing a historical framework -- Where two worlds collide : toward an integrated theory of epidemiological criminology -- The lexicon of terminology : developing an emerging paradigm -- Criminology, criminal justice, and the social sciences -- Research methods in epidemiology and criminology : a bridge between? -- Integrating the interdisciplinary sciences : theoretical foundations of the epidemiological criminology framework -- Health disparities and epidemiological criminology -- Incarceration and epidemiological criminology -- The health of correctional populations -- Recidivism and epidemiological criminology -- Gang violence and adolescent membership -- Criminality, substance abuse, and mental health : an epidemiological criminology framework -- Victims and victimization -- Environmental justice and the epidemiology of crime -- Global and domestic terrorism -- Criminal law, public health, and the epidemiological criminology framework -- International human rights and human trafficking Summary Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crime and ViolenceEpidemiological 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes "Written by the three leading experts in the field, this book combines an introduction to the sources and methods of epidemiological criminology and an application of these methods to some of the most vexing problems now confronting researchers and practitioners in public health and criminology. The book describes, explains, and applies the newly formulated practice of epidemiological criminology, an emerging discipline that links methods and statistical models of public health, particularly epidemiological theory, methods, and models, with the corresponding tools of their criminal justice counterparts. The book also applies epidemiological criminology as a practical tool to address population issues of violence and crime on a national and global basis"--Provided by publisher Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Epidemiology. Criminology. Crime. Violence. Epidemiologic Methods Epidemiology Criminology Crime Criminology -- methods Violence criminology. crimes (events) violence. MEDICAL -- Epidemiology. MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment. Violence Crime Criminology Epidemiology Form Electronic book Author Potter, Roberto Hugh Hill, Carl V., 1973- LC no. 2012034213 ISBN 9781118231555 1118231554 9781118220832 1118220838 9781118259139 1118259130

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