Book chapter
Exploring Knowledge Gaps in Healthcare Approaches to Violence Intervention
Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment, pp 722-740
2025
Abstract
Mass incarceration and increasing concern over gun violence in the United States have fueled calls for more equitable and non-punitive violence reduction alternatives. In this chapter, we highlight the potential utility of healthcare approaches to violence intervention and offer hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) as one such alternative using New Jersey's Project HEAL (Help, Empower, and Lead) as a substantive example. Though the evidence is promising, we outline several critical shortcomings within the current HVIP literature and suggest that criminologists work to address these shortcomings to ultimately reduce community violence and the reliance on mass incarceration and supervision. We set forth a research agenda that promotes decreased justice system contact and increased positive outcomes among victim/survivors of violence and their communities.
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- Title
- Exploring Knowledge Gaps in Healthcare Approaches to Violence Intervention
- Creators
- C. Clare Strange - Drexel UniversitySheetal Ranjan - Montclair State University
- Contributors
- Nathan W. Link (Editor)Meghan A. Novisky (Editor)Chantal Fahmy (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment, pp 722-740
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 19
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85209956318
- Other Identifier
- 991021910614504721