Understanding and Preventing Violence: Consequences and Control - Softcover

Reiss, Albert J.

 
9780309050791: Understanding and Preventing Violence: Consequences and Control

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.

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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

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