Epidemiological criminology : theory to practice / edited by Eve Waltermaurer and Timothy A. Akers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akers, Timothy A., 1961-

Waltermaurer, Eve.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice.

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology.

Criminology--Research--Methodology.

Criminology.

Criminal statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 260 p.) : ill., graphs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Epidemiological criminology is an emerging paradigm which explores the public health outcomes associated with engagement in crime and criminal justice. This book engages with this new theory and practice-based discipline drawing on knowledge from criminology, criminal justice, public health, epidemiology, public policy, and law to illustrate how the merging of epidemiology into the field of criminology allows for the work of both disciplines to be more interdisciplinary, evidence-based, enriched and expansive. This book brings together an innovative group of exemplary researchers and practitioners to discuss applications and provide examples of epidemiological criminology. It is divided into three sections; the first explores the integration of epidemiology and criminology through theory and methods, the second section focuses on special populations in epidemiological criminology research and the role of race, ethnicity, age, gender and space as it plays out in health outcomes among offenders and victims of crime, and the final section explores the role policy and practice plays in worsening and improving the health outcomes among those engaged in the criminal justice system. Epidemiological Criminology is the first text to bring together, in one source, the existing interdisciplinary work of academics and professionals that merge the fields of criminology and criminal justice to public health and epidemiology. It will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of criminology, epidemiology, and public health, as well as clinical psychologists, law and government policy analysts and those working within the criminal justice system.

Contents:

pt. 1. Integrating criminology and public health through theory and methods

pt. 2. Special populations in crime and health

pt. 3. Intersection of criminological and public health policy and practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 25, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-18491-0

1-136-18492-9

0-203-08342-3

9780203083420

OCLC:

853455170