Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4:

Consequences and Control

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Size: 408 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1994

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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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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 ...
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Front Matter	i-viii
Public Perceptions and Reactions to Violent Offending and Victimization	1-66	(skim)
The Costs and Consequences of Violent Behavior in the United States	67-166	(skim)
Violence and Intentional Injuries: Criminal Justice and Public Health Perspectives on an Urgent National Problem	167-216	(skim)
Predicting Violent Behavior and Classifying Violent Offenders	217-295	(skim)
Incarceration and Violent Crime: 1965-1988	296-388	(skim)
Index	389-397	(skim)

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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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Consequences and Control

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