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March 2009, Vol 99, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 397-402
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.139808

HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS

"Epidemiological Criminology": Coming Full Circle

Timothy A. Akers, PhD and Mark M. Lanier, PhD

Timothy A. Akers is with the School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Mark M. Lanier is with the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Timothy A. Akers, MS, PhD, Office of Research, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, 1130 E Cold Springs Lane, Portage Building, Baltimore, MD 21239 (e-mail: timothy.akers{at}morgan.edu).

Members of the public health and criminal justice disciplines often work with marginalized populations: people at high risk of drug use, health problems, incarceration, and other difficulties. As these fields increasingly overlap, distinctions between them are blurred, as numerous research reports and funding trends document. However, explicit theoretical and methodological linkages between the 2 disciplines remain rare.

A new paradigm that links methods and statistical models of public health with those of their criminal justice counterparts is needed, as are increased linkages between epidemiological analogies, theories, and models and the corresponding tools of criminology. We outline disciplinary commonalities and distinctions, present policy examples that integrate similarities, and propose "epidemiological criminology" as a bridging framework.






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