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Firearms and psychiatry [PDF]

International Review of Psychiatry, 2021
The experience and repercussions of mental illness cannot be fully understood as simple disease processes. A mind, healthy or afflicted, exists within various simultaneous contexts.
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Firearm Suicides And Availability Of Firearms: The Swiss Experience

European Psychiatry, 2010
AbstractThis study aimed to examine the association between the availability of firearms at home, and the proportion of firearm suicides in Switzerland in an ecological analysis. The data series were analysed by canton and yielded a fairly high correlation (Spearman's rho = 0.60). Thus, the association holds also at a sub-national level.
Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta, Killias, Martin, Hepp, Urs, Haymoz, Sandrine, Bopp, Matthias, Gutzwiller, Felix, Rössler, Wulf   +6 more
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Firearm Homicide and Firearm Suicide: Opposite but Equal [PDF]

Public Health Reports®, 2004
Objective. Homicide and suicide are intentional acts of violence that disproportionately involve firearms. Much more effort has been devoted to the ecological study of homicide; methods that have been developed to better understand and subsequently prevent homicide may be applicable to suicide.
Therese S. Richmond, Charles C. Branas, C. William Schwab   +2 more
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Firearms, Violence, and the Potential Impact of Firearms Control [PDF]

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2004
This paper organizes the question of gun controls as violence policy under two quite different headings. The first issue to be discussed is the relationship between gun use and the death rate from violent crime. The second question is whether and how firearms control strategies might reduce the death rate from violence.
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Firearm injuries in Missouri

PLOS ONE, 2023
Firearm deaths continue to be a major public health problem, but the number of non-fatal firearm injuries and the characteristics of patients and injuries is not well known. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, with support from the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, leveraged an existing data system to capture lethal and
Frederick P. Rivara, Ashley B. Hink, Deborah Kuhls, Samantha Banks, Lauren L. Agoubi, Shelbie Kirkendoll, Alex Winchester, Christopher Hoeft, Bhavin Patel, Avery Nathens   +9 more
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Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality

JAMA Network Open
ImportanceCausal associations between household firearm ownership rates (HFRs) and firearm mortality rates are not well understood.ObjectiveTo assess the population-level temporal sequencing of firearm death rates and HFRs.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study used autoregressive cross-lagged models to analyze HFRs, firearm suicide rates ...
Morral, Andrew R., Agniel, Denis, Smart, Rosanna, Schell, Terry L.   +3 more
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The Impact of Firearm Legislation on Firearm Deaths, 1991–2017

Journal of Public Health, 2021
AbstractFirearm violence is a major public health concern in the USA with firearm suicide and homicide accounting for the majority of gun deaths. The present work seeks to explore the role of firearm legislation in reducing suicide and homicide rates.
Tracy Andrews, John F. Gunn, Bernadette C. Hohl, Paul Boxer, Stephanie Bonne, Elizabeth Sloan-Power, Michael Ostermann, Michael K. Gusmano   +7 more
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Community‐engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the U.S., crime and violence are concentrated in cities that have lost industry and population due to economic disinvestment and structurally racist policies. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for community‐level approaches that reduce violence in these cities by improving unsafe physical environments, increasing ...
Laney A. Rupp, Shaun Bhatia, Daniel B. Lee, Rachel Wyatt, Gregory Bushman, Thomas A. Wyatt, Jesenia M. Pizarro, Caroline Wixom, Marc A. Zimmerman, Thomas M. Reischl   +9 more
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Spontaneous Contact and Social Resilience Following Eruption of Interethnic Violence in Ethnically Mixed Settings

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does spontaneous contact between individuals from different ethnonational groups affect their social resilience, specifically their ability to avoid escalation and radicalization following eruptions of ethnic violence? To address this question, we conducted a series of studies in mixed Jewish–Palestinian cities and academic settings.
Nitzan Faibish, Ifat Maoz, Paz Yaacov, Dan Miodownik   +3 more
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Do Gun‐Purchase Waiting Periods Save Lives?

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the impact of gun‐purchase waiting periods on suicide rates using county‐level mortality data from 1991–2019. We find that waiting periods are associated with a reduction in both firearm and overall suicide rates of approximately 5% and 2%, respectively.
Grace E. Arnold, Mitchell Blaine Priestley   +1 more
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