Common Problems! and Common Solutions? - Teaching at the Intersection Between Public Health and Criminology : A Public Health Perspective

Public health and criminology share similar current and future challenges, mostly related to crime and health causation, prevention, and sustainable development. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to education at the intersection of public health and criminology can be an integral part of future training in areas of mutual interest. Based on reflections on teaching criminology students, this viewpoint discusses the main interconnections between public health and criminology teaching through the public health lens. The paper discusses potential challenges associated with interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Among these challenges is communication across the different fields and their perspectives to be able to achieve the desired complementarity at the intersection of the two disciplines.
CC BY 4.0 DEEDCopyright: © 2024 The Author(s)CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Gloria Macassa, MDDepartment of Public Health and Sports Science, Faculty of Occupational and Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Kungsbacksvägen 47, 80176 Gävle, Sweden; Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden; EPIUnit–Instituto de Saude Publica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Taipas 135, 4050–600 Porto, Portugal gloria.macassa@hig.se