Introduction
Chapter 1 History of Public Health
Chapter 2 Health in the United States through an Ecological Lens
Chapter 3 Victimization and Victimology
Chapter 4 Victimization in the United States and Health Outcomes
Chapter 5 Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Police, Courts, and Corrections
Chapter 6 A History and Description of Victims' Rights in the United States
Chapter 7 Victimization and Public Health
Chapter 8 Homicide and Traumatic Death
Chapter 9 Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 10 Child Abuse and Neglect
Chapter 11 Sexual Victimization of Children
Chapter 12 Sexual Victimization of Adults
Chapter 13 Victimization of the Elderly
Chapter 14 Hate Crime in the United States
Chapter 15 Future Challenges with Recommendations for Criminal Victimization and Public Health
Eric
Meyer
Dr. Eric Meyer researches criminal justice topics through a public health lens and the use of art to affect social change. His doctoral dissertation was an ethnography within the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility, where he explored the therapeutic climate among and between staff members and inmates. In 2019, Dr. Meyer earned a PhD at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion and Social Behavioral Health. Dr. Meyer is a former police officer with nearly 20 years of experience between two metropolitan law enforcement agencies. Dr. Meyer earned his MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and an MA in Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago.