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Strengthening the Collaboration between Public Health and Criminal Justice to Prevent Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Deborah Prothrow-Stith
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Over the last two decades in the United States, public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers have charted new tenitory by increasingly using public health strategies to understand and prevent youth violence, which has been considered a criminal justice problem. The utilization of public health approaches has generated several contributions to the understanding and prevention of violence, including new and expanded knowledge in surveillance, delineation of risk factors, and prop design, including implementation and evaluation strategies.

While public health activities generally complement those of criminal justice, confrontations, challenges and turf issues within this cross-disciplinary enterprise remain inevitable. Continued progress is dependent upon expanded efforts and greater collaboration within both disciplines.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 2004 , pp. 82 - 88
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2004

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