Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4: Consequences and Control: 004 - Softcover

National Research Council; Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education; Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education; Panel On The Understanding And Control Of Violent Behavior

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309050790 ISBN 13: 9780309050791

Verlag: National Academies Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Table of Contents

• 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Albert J. Reiss, Jr. and Jeffrey A. Roth, Editors, Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior, National Research Council

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: National Academies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0309050790
• ISBN 13: 9780309050791
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408
• Herausgeber: Roth Jeffrey A., Jr. Albert J. Reiss
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