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"Epidemiological criminology": Coming full circle

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  • Akers, T.A.
  • Lanier, M.M.

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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.

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  • Akers, T.A. & Lanier, M.M., 2009. ""Epidemiological criminology": Coming full circle," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(3), pages 397-402.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2008.139808_5
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.139808
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    1. Guy C M Skinner & David P Farrington & Darrick Jolliffe, 2022. "Criminal Careers and Early Death: Relationships In the Cambridge Study In Delinquent Development," The British Journal of Criminology, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, vol. 62(4), pages 840-856.
    2. Vaughn, Michael G. & DeLisi, Matt & Beaver, Kevin M. & Perron, Brian E. & Abdon, Arnelyn, 2012. "Toward a criminal justice epidemiology: Behavioral and physical health of probationers and parolees in the United States," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 165-173.
    3. Brett Bowman & Sherianne Kramer & Sulaiman Salau & Ella Kotze & Richard Matzopoulos, 2018. "Linking criminal contexts to injury outcomes: findings and lessons from a national study of robbery in South Africa," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 63(8), pages 977-985, November.

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