Using public health approaches to prevent violence

 

 

Researchers who study violence in communities know that it can spread much like an outbreak of flu or measles. In innovative programs around the United States and overseas, law enforcement is teaming up with public health experts and researchers to understand how violence occurs and how it can be prevented.

Learn more about these partnerships — and the need for research and evaluation of these innovative strategies — in a new NIJ Journal article.

Healthy Communities May Make Safe Communities: Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention.