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Crime And Public Health: Interdisciplinary Approach To Education, Karen Miner-Romanoff, Leslie J. King
Crime And Public Health: Interdisciplinary Approach To Education, Karen Miner-Romanoff, Leslie J. King
Scholarship Forum 2013
Dr. Karen Miner-Romanoff and Dr. Leslie King state that although crime rates have decreased in the last several years, they remain alarmingly high. Recidivism rates, in the meantime, continue to rise with up to half of all new prison inmates incarcerated for reoffending after their initial release (Matz, et al., 2012). As the costs of a failed criminal justice system becomes unsustainable, scholars search for new evidence-based, innovative and collaborative solutions to lower crime and increased public health and safety. As a result of this collaboration, some criminal justice and public health leaders are seeking to develop new theoretical and …