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Changes in patterns of mortality rates and years of life lost due to firearms in the United States, 1999 to 2016: A joinpoint analysis

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Background Firearm-related death rates and years of potential life lost (YPLL) vary widely between population subgroups and states. However, changes or inflections in temporal trends within subgroups and states are not fully documented.
Hannah M Bailey   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

Debunking a Myth: The Gun Lobby's Claim That Less Than 1% of Crime Guns Come from Gun Shows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A loophole in federal law and the law of 33 states, commonly referred to as the "Gun Show Loophole," allows unlicensed vendors at these events to sell firearms without conducting background checks on purchasers.

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Criminal Justice and Suicide Outcomes with Indiana's Risk-Based Gun Seizure Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article examines the application and effectiveness of a 2006 Indiana law designed to prevent gun violence by authorizing police officers to separate firearms from persons who present imminent or future risk of injury to self or others, or display a ...
Alanis-Hirsch, Kelly   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Convolutional Models for the Detection of Firearms in Surveillance Videos

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2019
Closed-circuit television monitoring systems used for surveillance do not provide an immediate response in situations of danger such as armed robbery. In addition, they have multiple limitations when human operators perform the monitoring.
David Romero, Christian Salamea
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Bear Arms: A Uniquely American Entitlement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In District of Columbia v. Heller the Supreme Court held that individuals have a constitutional right to own firearms, notably to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-protection.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
core   +1 more source

Automated Detection of Firearms and Knives in a CCTV Image

open access: yesItalian National Conference on Sensors, 2016
Closed circuit television systems (CCTV) are becoming more and more popular and are being deployed in many offices, housing estates and in most public spaces. Monitoring systems have been implemented in many European and American cities.
M. Grega   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Outcomes of Civilian Penetrating Rectal Injuries Associated With Genitourinary and Bony Injuries

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Extraperitoneal rectal injuries with associated bladder and/or bone injuries can be safely managed with fecal diversion, extraperitoneal bladder repair through cystostomy, and irrigation of bone and joint injuries, with minimal morbidity. ABSTRACT Background Combined rectal, bladder, and bone injuries are rare but associated with significant morbidity.
Terron Govender   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearms and Knives in Schools and Gymnasiums Kyiv Education District

open access: yesVìsnik - Kiïvsʹkij nacìonalʹnij unìversitet ìmenì Tarasa Ševčenka: Ìstorìâ, 2020
The educational space consists of a number of important and interrelated components, some of them date back to the recent or distant past. There are components of such past, which in this regard can be of cognitive and scientific interest, in particular ...
Yuliia Shemeta
doaj   +1 more source

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