Epidemiological Criminology: A Public Health Approach to Crime and Violence -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- Introduction: Crime, Criminal Justice, Health, and Victims -- Levels of Theoretical Analysis -- Why the Meso Is Important -- Revising the Epidemiological Trinity -- Environment -- Community -- Justice Systems -- Hosts, Agents, Agency, and Behavior -- Risk, Deviance, Crime, and Health -- Summary -- Part One: Foundation for an Emerging Paradigm: Epidemiological Criminology -- Chapter 1 Establishing a Historical Framework for Epidemiological Criminology -- The War on Poverty -- The War on Crime -- The War on Drugs -- The War on Terror -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Where Two Worlds Collide: Toward an Integrated Theory of Epidemiological Criminology -- Roots and Forks in the Road -- History -- Determining When or Where to Start an Investigation -- Defining an Emerging Paradigm -- Epidemiology -- Public Health -- Criminal Justice -- Criminology -- Epidemiological Criminology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 3 The Lexicon of Terminology: Developing an Emerging Paradigm -- Scientific and Practice Integration: Building an Emerging Paradigm -- Theories and Models: An Integrative Paradigm -- Theories and Models: Framing the Paradigm -- Biological Factors -- Psychological Factors -- Sociological Factors -- Environmental Factors -- Units of Analysis -- Health and Crime: Biomedical and Behavioral Disparities -- Prevention Interventions -- Primary Prevention (Before the Event) -- Secondary Prevention (During the Event) -- Tertiary Prevention (After the Event) -- Causation: The Epidemiologic Triad -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Part Two: Theories, Concepts, and Methods -- Chapter 4 Criminology, Criminal Justice, and the Social Sciences -- Criminology -- Criminal Justice.

Where Does That Leave Epidemiological Criminology? -- Public Health -- Lessons from the Foundation of Sociology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Research Methods in Epidemiology and Criminology: A Bridge Between? -- Surveillance or Monitoring? -- Monitoring, Surveillance, and Epidemiological Criminology -- Method, Technique, and Theory -- The Evidence Base -- In the Field and on the Streets -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Integrating the Interdisciplinary Sciences: Theoretical Foundations of the Epidemiological Criminology Framework -- Criminogenics: The Evidence Base of Individual Criminal Behavior -- Propensity Versus Typology: How Changeable Are Criminogenics? -- Dynamic Risks -- Implications for Public Health Interventions -- Social Learning and Social Structure: Moving Evidence to the Next Social Levels -- Primary Groups, Socialization, and Criminal Behavior -- Organizations (Secondary Groups), Societal Reaction, and Control -- A Shift to the Macro -- Epidemiological Criminology Implications for Public Health Interventions -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Part Three: Applying Epidemiological Criminology in Practice and Policy -- Chapter 7 Health Disparities and Epidemiological Criminology -- Health Disparities -- Conceptualizing Criminogenic Health Disparities -- Conceptualizing Epidemiological Criminology and Disparities -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Incarceration and Epidemiological Criminology -- The Organizational Ecology of Incarceration -- Incarceration by Police -- Juvenile Detention: A Snapshot -- The Process of Incarceration -- Jail: Booking, First Appearance, and Potential Release on Bail -- Jail: After Booking and Before Trial and Sentencing -- Jail to Prison: Continuing Incarceration -- The Filtering Process -- The Epidemiology of Incarceration: The Importance of Process -- Criminal Records -- Conclusion -- Summary.

Chapter 9 The Health of Correctional Populations -- Competing Images: Magic Castles and Houses of Horror -- Juvenile Detention -- Jail -- Health of Jail Inmates -- Health of Prisoners -- HIV: An Exemplar of Where One Looks and How -- Methodology -- Relationships Among the Approaches -- Which Is the Best? -- Reentry to the Community -- Implications for Epidemiological Criminology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Recidivism and Epidemiological Criminology -- Why Measure Recidivism? -- Defining and Measuring Recidivism -- How Much Recidivism? -- Who Returns to Prison? -- Jails and Recidivism -- Health Recidivism -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 11 Gang Violence and Adolescent Membership -- Biopsychosocial and Environmental Determinants -- Micro-, Meso-, and Macroinfluences -- Epidemiology of Gangs and Gang Violence -- An Integrated Approach -- Health Behavior and Criminal Behavior -- Biomedical Disparities and Behavioral Disparities -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 12 Criminality, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health: An Epidemiological Criminology Framework -- Criminalization -- Mental Illness, Crime, and Criminal Justice -- Mental Illness and Epidemiological Criminology -- Substance Abuse -- Substance Abuse and Epidemiological Criminology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 13 Victims and Victimization -- Victims and Victimology -- The Academy Discovers Victims -- The Role of Place: Geography and Victimization -- Routine Activities -- The Health Industrial Complex Discovers Victims -- Measuring Victims -- Violence and Epidemiological Criminology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Part Four: Future Direction and Trends -- Chapter 14 Environmental Justice and the Epidemiology of Crime -- What Is Environment? What Is Justice? -- The Traditional Epidemiological Approach: What Is Missing? -- Segregation and Health.

Residential Segregation and Criminal Behavior -- Environmental Justice and Epidemiological Criminology -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 15 Global and Domestic Terrorism -- Epidemiology of Terrorism -- Epidemiological Criminology as an Integrated Paradigm -- Epidemiology and Public Health -- Criminology and Criminal Justice -- Biopsychosocial and Environmental Makeup of Terrorism and Terrorists -- Micro-, Meso-, and Macroinfluences -- Health Behavior and Criminal Behavior -- Biomedical Disparities and Behavioral Disparities -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 16 Criminal Law, Public Health Law, and the Epidemiological Criminology Framework -- Criminal Law, Public Health Law, and Social Control -- Whose Interests? -- Law and Epidemiological Criminology -- Values -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 17 International Human Rights and Human Trafficking -- What Is a Right? -- Does the Epidemiological Criminology Framework Fit Human Rights? -- A General Model of Trafficking -- Trafficking Networks -- Individual Traffickers and Individual Victims -- Responding to Human Trafficking from an Epidemiological Criminology Framework -- Conclusion -- Summary -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.