Violence and Crime: A Public Health Perspective

James F. Anderson received a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University and an M.S. in criminology from Alabama State University. He has taught criminal justice and criminology courses for over 30 years to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. He is currently Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Carolina University. His areas of research include crime and public health, epidemiological approaches to crime, alternatives to incarceration, elderly and child abuse, intimate personal violence, and criminological theory. He is the author of several books, book chapters, and journal articles on criminal justice-related issues.

Tazinski P. Lee received a Ph.D. in public policy and administration from Jackson State University and an M.S. in criminal justice from Grambling State University. Professor Lee has taught criminal justice, criminology, and public administration courses for over 30 years. She is currently Professor and Head of Criminal Justice at Grambling State University. Her research focuses on race, crime, and gender, female sex offenders, and public policy. She has published in several journals in the areas of public health, race and ethnicity, alternatives to incarceration, and others.

Kelley Reinsmith-Jones received a Ph.D. in leadership from Gonzaga University and an M.S. in social work from Eastern Washington University. She is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the School of Social Work at East Carolina University. While there, she created and taught a series of leadership development courses with funds awarded by the BB&T Leadership Center. Prior to teaching in North Carolina, she taught as an adjunct for Eastern Washington University in the social work and substance abuse departments. She also held an administrative position in public mental health working closely with social workers, psychiatrists, and care teams while specializing in managed care, residential care, and state/community psychiatric care. She was director of a HUD SPINS grant that provided housing and other services to migrant workers with HIV or AIDS, working closely with public health providers. In Alaska, she worked primarily in creating and providing substance abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare services to youth, ages 14-24 years, and their families. She worked for the Juneau Recovery Hospital and was an affiliate staff of Bartlett Regional Hospital.