Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities

Gunter, Anthony (2023). Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities. In: Ellis, Adam; Marques, Olga and Gunter, Anthony eds. Thug Criminology: A Call to Action. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 167–184.

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Abstract

In this chapter, Anthony Gunter outlines how in response to England’s ‘violent crime epidemic’ there is now a great upsurge of media-driven political interest in this perspective – specifically, the Violence Reduction Unit of Police Scotland. He maintains that the public health approach fails to resolve fundamental questions about structural inequality, the criminalisation process and state racism. Moreover, instead of being a panacea, the chapter concludes by asserting that the crime as contagious virus perspective runs the risk of further stigmatising already problematised Black and minority communities.

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