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Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review

PLoS ONE, 2021
Background Higher availability of firearms has been connected to higher rates of interpersonal violence in previous studies. Yet, those studies have focused mainly on the United States, or used aggregated international data to study firearm violence ...
Katharina Krüsselmann, P. Aarten, M. Liem   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Locked and loaded: examining Pennsylvanians’ perceptions about arming school personnel and impacts on school safety

Criminal justice studies
With proposed legislation that, if enacted, would effectively end Pennsylvania’s gun-free school zones, this study sought to examine the attitudes of Pennsylvanians on arming teachers.
Emily R. Strohacker
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West, Thomas A. Nixon Jr., Diane Bishop, Anabeel Sen, Derek A. Chapman, Nicholas D. Thomson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston, Lynley A. Wallis, Heather Burke, Lorna Bogdanek, Trevina Rogers, Justine Kemp   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence concerning the regulation of firearms design, sale, and carrying on fatal mass shootings in the United States

Criminology & Public Policy, 2020
Research Summary: We used data from the FBI’s Supplemental Homicide Reports and other publicly available databases to calculate state-level annual incidence of fatal mass shootings for 1984–2017.
D. Webster, A. McCourt, C. Crifasi, Marisa Booty, E. Stuart   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

A Psychophysiological Model of Firearms Training in Police Officers: A Virtual Reality Experiment for Biocybernetic Adaptation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Crucial elements for police firearms training include mastering very specific psychophysiological responses associated with controlled breathing while shooting. Under high-stress situations, the shooter is affected by responses of the sympathetic nervous
J. Muñoz, Luis Quintero, C. Stephens, A. Pope   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Addressing Suicide Risk in Counseling: The Role of Social Determinants of Health in a National Sample of Young Adults

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Suicide remains a leading cause of death among young adults, including those in mental health treatment. This study examined how social determinants of health (SDOH) influence suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts among 3,690 young adults (ages 18 to 25 years) who received mental health services in the past year.
Edward Wahesh, Laura K. Jones, Afroze N. Shaikh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Kazakhstan is recognized as a key stronghold for the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Nonetheless, the wolf status and the dynamics of human‐wolf coexistence in the region remain poorly understood. This study aims to fill that gap by exploring current attitudes towards wolves in Kazakhstan and identify the underlying drivers of these attitudes.
Alyona Koshkina, Svitlana Kudrenko, Andrés Ordiz, Saltanat Kamiyeva, Adam Devenish, Johannes Kamp   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Unsustainable hunting practices can alter population dynamics, driving biodiversity declines, which leads to ‘empty forests’. Understanding hunting behaviour, including motivations for hunting and relationships with market drivers, and access to hunting grounds are important to develop affirmative policies to stem biodiversity loss.
Natasha L. M. Mannion, Rachel Gaulton, Maria Erica Jamil, Marion Pfeifer, Johan Willem Ferry Slik, Stephen G. Willis, F. Merlin Franco   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source