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Violence prevention and control through environmental modifications.

Julie Samia Mair¹, Michael Mair

¹Center for Law and the Public's Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. jmair@jhsph.edu

Annual Review of Public Health

|November 13, 2002

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Public health approaches can prevent violence by modifying environments. This study explores environmental crime prevention strategies and their public health applications.

Area of Science:

Public Health
Criminology
Environmental Science

Background:

Violence is increasingly recognized as a public health issue beyond the criminal justice system.
Environmental factors are crucial determinants of disease and injury, yet underutilized in violence prevention.
Criminology has a history of researching environmental influences on crime.

Purpose of the Study:

To discuss environmental crime prevention strategies.
To review public health literature employing these strategies.
To propose public health research on environmental modifications for violence control.

Main Methods:

Literature review of environmental crime prevention strategies.
Analysis of public health studies using environmental approaches.

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Synthesis of criminological and public health perspectives.

Main Results:

Environmental modifications offer promising interventions for violence prevention.
Public health can contribute novel tools and perspectives to environmental crime prevention.
Existing research highlights the potential of environmental strategies.

Conclusions:

Violence prevention can be enhanced through environmental modifications.
Integrating public health and environmental science is key to controlling violence.
Further research is needed to validate environmental hypotheses in violence control.