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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cohort Study of Downgraded Misdemeanor Convictions and Subsequent Violent Crime: Differences by Defendant Race and Ethnicity

AJPM Focus
Introduction: Criminal convictions may be imperfect markers of criminalized behavior, in part because of criminal legal system processes (e.g., plea bargaining).
Julia P. Schleimer, MPH, Miriam J. Haviland, PhD, MSPH, Amy Gallagher, MPH, Ayah Mustafa, BS, Rachel Ross, MPH, Garen Wintemute, MD, MPH, Deirdre Bowen, JD, PhD, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD, PhD, MPH   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Redefining Our Understanding of The Impact of Firearm-Related Injury in the State of Georgia: A White Paper by the Violence Prevention Task Force of IPRCE

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2020
Background: Firearm-related injury is a crisis that afflicts vulnerable populations of all ages, ethnicities, races and gender. The purpose of this white paper is to delineate the impact of firearm-related violence on the health and well-being of ...
Omar Danner, Lauren Hudak, Rana Bayakly, Carol Koplan, Alexander Kelly, Sharon Nieb, Sheryl Heron   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

Using extreme risk protection orders to prevent violence among people experiencing homelessness in California and Colorado: a case series

Injury Epidemiology
Background Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) temporarily restrict firearm access from those at risk of harming themselves and/or others. This case series describes when and how ERPOs have been used for people experiencing homelessness.
Ari Davis, Rose Kim, Lisa B. Geller, Christopher E. Knoepke, Leslie Barnard, Garen J. Wintemute, Veronica A. Pear   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Would restricting firearm purchases due to alcohol- and drug-related misdemeanor offenses reduce firearm homicide and suicide? An agent-based simulation

Injury Epidemiology, 2022
Background Substance-related interactions with the criminal justice system are a potential touchpoint to identify people at risk for firearm violence. We used an agent-based model to simulate the change in firearm violence after disqualifying people from
Magdalena Cerdá, Ava D. Hamilton, Melissa Tracy, Charles Branas, David Fink, Katherine M. Keyes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender, violence, and killing: Revisiting femicide, and the overlooked realities of male victimization

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract The term femicide, widely used in reference to the “killing of a woman because she is a woman,” has been questioned on the ground that it implies unequal dignity of men and women victims of gender related death. This position called for an analysis of the terminology used to describe and define the various forms of killing of women and men. We
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Sekaren Shantha‐Kumari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm assaults against US law enforcement officers in the line-of-duty: Associations with firearm ownership and state firearm laws

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022
Law enforcement officers are disproportionately affected by occupational injury. Firearm violence is the second leading cause of occupational mortality for this group behind motor vehicle crashes.
Ariana N. Gobaud, Christina A. Mehranbod, Paul M. Reeping, Brady R. Bushover, Christopher N. Morrison   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability

Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean, William R. Forster, Nicholas Dew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Results of an Initiative to Assess Exposure to Firearm Violence in Ambulatory Care: Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Health Record Data

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Background Current research on firearm violence is largely limited to patients who received care in emergency departments or inpatient acute care settings or who died.
Nicole Cook, Megan Hoopes, Frances M Biel, Natalie Cartwright, Michelle Gordon, Marion Sills   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source