Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4

Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4

Consequences and Control

  • Author: Roth, Jeffrey A.; Reiss, Albert J., Jr.
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309050791
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309586801
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1994
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 406
  • Language: English

This book analyzes the consequences of violence and strategies for controlling them. Included are reviews of public perceptions and reactions to violence; estimates of the costs; the commonalities and complementarities of criminal justice and public health responses; efforts to reduce violence through the prediction and classification of violent offenders; and the relationships between trends in violence and prison population during a period of greatly increased use of incarceration.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Public Perceptions and Reactions to Violent Offending and Victimization
  • The Costs and Consequences of Violent Behavior in the United States
  • Violence and Intentional Injuries: Criminal Justice and Public Health Perspectives on an Urgent National Problem
  • Predicting Violent Behavior and Classifying Violent Offenders
  • Incarceration and Violent Crime: 1965-1988
  • Index

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