Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education 
Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 4 [PDF ebook] 
Consequences and Control

This book analyzes the consequences of violence and strategies for controlling them. Included are reviews of public perceptions and reactions to violence; estimates of the costs; the commonalities and complementarities of criminal justice and public health responses; efforts to reduce violence through the prediction and classification of violent offenders; and the relationships between trends in violence and prison population during a period of greatly increased use of incarceration.