Understanding and Preventing Violence.: (Consequences and Control.) - v. 4,

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.