Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction A. M. Viens, John C oggon and Anthony S. Kessel; 2. Criminal law, regulatory frameworks and public health Roger Brownsword; 3. Drugs, crime and public health: an insight from criminology Doug Husak; 4. Criminal law, drugs and harm re duction Tom Walker; 5. Morality and strategy in politicising tobacco us e: criminal law, public health, and philosophy John Coggon; 6. Pursued by the 'fat' police? Prosecuting the parents of obese children Tracey E lliot; 7. Disease transmission, liability and criminal law James Chalme rs; 8. Compulsion, surveillance, testing and treatment: a truly 'crimin al' matter? Jean V. McHale; 9. Epidemiological criminology and violence prevention: addressing the co-occurrence of criminal violence and poor health outcomes Roberto H. Potter and Timothy A. Akers; 10. Forensic e pidemiology: strange bedfellows or the perfect match? Can public health and criminal law work together without losing their souls? Zita Lazzar ini; 11. From the criminal to the consensual: the shifting mechanisms o f environmental regulation Robert G. Lee and Mark Stallworthy; 12. Crim inal law and global health governance David P. Fidler.

"The goal of improving public health involves the use of different t ools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institu tions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. Utilising criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of c omplex questions that merit exploration. This examination of the interf ace between criminal law and public health brings together internationa l experts from a variety of disciplines, including law, criminology, pu blic health, philosophy and health policy, in order to examine the theo retical and practical implications of using criminal law to improve pub lic health"-- Provided by publisher.