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Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California [PDF]
Provides an overview of data on youth gang-related homicides, the role of firearms in the rising lethality of gang violence, and the state of data collection.
Josh Sugarmann, Tom Diaz
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ABSTRACT Based on theories of deliberative democracy, this article explores the substantive content of reasons as a conceptual tool. Although most studies focus on procedural dimensions, we argue that identifying and mapping substantive reasons contributes to advancing empirical investigation in a theoretically informed and normatively relevant way ...
Rousiley C. M. Maia+3 more
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Criminal offences involving firearms in New South Wales, 1995-2011 [PDF]
Despite the recent upward trend in drive-by shootings, the the number of incidents involving a firearm in New South Wales declined by 48% between 1995 and 2011.
Emma Birdsey
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Case Study: The Boston Gun Project and Operation Ceasefire [PDF]
The Boston Gun Project was a problem-oriented policing initiative expressly aimed at reducing homicide victimization among youths in Boston in the mid-1990s (Kennedy et al., 1996; Kennedy et al., 2001).
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Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
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Drive-By America: Second Edition [PDF]
Drive-by shootings are commonly defined as an incident in which the shooterfires a firearm from a motor vehicle at another person, vehicle, building, or another stationary object.This study is a follow-up to the July 2007 Violence Policy Center (VPC ...
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Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide? A review of international evidence [PDF]
The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder?
Don B. Kates, Gary Mauser
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Yes, You Can: Physicians, Patients, and Firearms
In 2014, a total of 33599 Americans died of gunshot wounds (1). Although the risk for firearm-related homicide is highest among young African American men, most firearm-related deaths are suicides, for which older white men are at highest risk (2 ...
G. Wintemute, M. Betz, M. Ranney
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Policy Points California government codes 13963.1 and 13963.2 guide the funding and implementation of the Trauma Recovery Center model to provide mental health treatment and case management to underserved victims of violent crime. In Los Angeles County, Trauma Recovery Centers successfully engage underserved victims of crime and improve posttraumatic ...
ANNETTE M. DEKKER+7 more
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Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]
20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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