Abstract
The intersection of public health and criminal justice involves reducing negative human outcomes, disease and crime, respectively.
In this article, we examine the public health approach in detail and how it relates to criminal justice research and practice
and how each discipline achieves legitimacy. We demonstrate the public duties of the criminal justice system and how it already
performs some public health duties and how we can better integrate public health approaches at the academic, bureaucratic,
and street levels.
In this article, we examine the public health approach in detail and how it relates to criminal justice research and practice
and how each discipline achieves legitimacy. We demonstrate the public duties of the criminal justice system and how it already
performs some public health duties and how we can better integrate public health approaches at the academic, bureaucratic,
and street levels.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-13
- DOI 10.1007/s12103-012-9173-3
- Authors
- Roberto Hugh Potter, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Health & Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
- Jeffrey W. Rosky, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Health & Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
- Journal American Journal of Criminal Justice
- Online ISSN 1936-1351
- Print ISSN 1066-2316