3219.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral Session

Violence: A Public Health Approach to Prevention

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the growth and utilization of criminal justice policies as the primary social response to violence and abuse. 2. Understand the recent growth and utilization of public health anti-violence policies. 3. Understand how the primary value of the public health model is as a "countervailing force" to the criminal justice system. 4. Understand a progressive/radical perspective that may result in both a decrease in violence and abuse and a decrease in growth of the criminal justice system.
Presider(s):Joy Marshall, MD
Panelist(s):Harry Perlstadt, PhD, MPH
Richard G Wright
4:30 PMPeer mediation of disputes in secondary schools
Harry Perlstadt, PhD, MPH, Margie Betz, Angela Pok
4:45 PMPublic Health & Violence: A "Countervailing Force" To The Criminal Justice System?
Richard G. Wright
5:00 PMTBA
5:15 PMTBA
5:30 PMDiscussion
Sponsor:Peace Caucus
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Occupational Health and Safety; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA