Understanding and Preventing Violence: Consequences and Control: 004 - Brossura

Reiss, Albert J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0309050790 ISBN 13: 9780309050791

Casa editrice: Natl Academy Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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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Product Description

Book by Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Natl Academy Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0309050790
• ISBN 13: 9780309050791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408
• Redattore: Roth Jeffrey A.
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