Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4

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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