Developments in Epidemiological Criminology

• In Event: Reintegrating Offenders Into the Community

Abstract

The Epidemiological Criminology framework seeks to clearly explicate the links between health and criminal behaviors (Akers, Potter & Hill, 2013). In the few years that the framework has been employed, only a handful of studies have attempted more than epidemiological studies of disease among those labeled criminal. The proposed roundtable would examine new developments in examining empirical links between health-related behaviors, deviant and criminal behaviors. These include the impact of health insurance policies on rates of crime, sexually-transmitted diseases and arrest charges, and the common and divergent risk factors between health and criminal outcomes. The essential question remains what influence health behaviors have on criminal outcomes, as well as what influence criminal and deviant behaviors have on health outcomes.

Authors

• Roberto Hugh Potter, University of Central Florida

• Timothy A. Akers, Morgan State University

• Jeffrey W. Rosky, University of Central Florida