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Collective Efficacy and Firearms Violence in Anchorage, Alaska: Preliminary Findings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Paper also presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Scottsdale, Arizona.This paper seeks to advance the discussion of the utility of collective efficacy, as captured by Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls, in understanding ...
Evans, Shel Llee, Langworthy, Robert H.
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Would banning firearms reduce murder and suicide? A review of international evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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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The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2019
BackgroundIn the US more than 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. The most severe violence, violence that ends in death, disproportionately affects women.
Neil S. Websdale   +2 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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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

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

Mortality Benefit of Tranexamic Acid for Hemorrhage With Concurrent Traumatic Brain Injury: Outcomes From a Prospective Cohort Study in a High‐Trauma, Prolonged Care Setting

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Early TXA administration (≤ 3 h) in concurrent hemorrhage and TBI was significantly associated with a 22% reduction in mortality at 7 days. TXA treatment was also associated with a significant 29% lower odds of organ failure and non‐significant 11% odds of good neurologic recovery.
Julia M. Dixon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpol review of the analysis and detection of explosives and explosives residues

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2023
Douglas J. Klapec   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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