Title

"Epidemiological Criminology": Coming Full Circle

Abstract

Members of the public health and criminal justice disciplines often work with marginalized populations: people at high risk of drug use, health problems, incarceration, and other difficulties. As these fields increasingly overlap, distinctions between them are blurred, as numerous research reports and funding trends document. However, explicit theoretical and methodological linkages between the 2 disciplines remain rare. A new paradigm that links methods and statistical models of public health with those of their criminal justice counterparts is needed, as are increased linkages between epidemiological analogies, theories, and models and the corresponding tools of criminology. We outline disciplinary commonalities and distinctions, present policy examples that integrate similarities, and propose "epidemiological criminology" as a bridging framework.

Publication Date

3-1-2009

Publication Title

American Journal of Public Health

Volume

99

Issue

3

Number of Pages

397-402

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.139808

Socpus ID

61549128178 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/61549128178

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