Epidemiological Criminology

Coming Full Circle

Bibliographic Data

ID5772891
AuthorsTimothy A Akers (Timothy A. Akers is with the School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Mark M. Lanier is with the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando.), Mark M Lanier (Timothy A. Akers is with the School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Mark M. Lanier is with the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando.)
Year2009
Volume99
Issue3
Pages397-402
Publication date2009-01-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2008.139808
PMID19150901
PMCIDPMC2661436
OpenAlexW1996050780
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited21

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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