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Camouflaged Collectives: Managing Stigma and Identity at Gun Events
Studies in Social Justice, 2017 Gun violence persists in the United States, claiming lives and escalating healthcare costs. This article seeks to contribute to social justice work on the “gun problem” by studying gun collectives.
Sarah Jane Blithe, Jennifer Lanterman
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BMJ Open, 2020 Introduction The USA has the highest rate of community gun violence of any developed democracy. There is an urgent need to develop feasible, scalable and community-led interventions that mitigate incident gun violence and its associated health impacts ...
Pina Violano +10 more
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Young Guns: How Gun Violence Is Devastating the Millennial Generation [PDF]
, 2014 While guns play a role in so many deaths of America's youth, very few public health research dollars are spent to understand the causes of this epidemic and develop policy solutions to address it.
Anne Johnson, Chelsea Parsons
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Using virtual reality to understand gun owner decision-making
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundNearly 70% of gun owners support requiring concealed carry license applicants to pass a test demonstrating safe and lawful weapon use. However, many states are removing training requirements and gun owners’ behaviors and decision-making are ...
Cassandra K. Crifasi +5 more
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Preventing Gun Violence in Pediatrics [PDF]
, 2018 Learn about the Violence Prevention Initiative at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which has become a national and global model for hospital-based and communitydelivered violence prevention through educational programming in schools and the community,
Myers, PhD, Rachel
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A Systematic Plan for Firearms Law Reform [PDF]
, 2013 Tragedy after tragedy has drawn the nation’s attention towards gun violence. Yet the murder of 20 school children in Newtown, CT has done more to drive the national dialogue on gun control than any preceding mass shooting, not to mention the endemic ...
Gostin, Lawrence O. +1 more
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Sources of Guns to Dangerous People: What We Learn By Asking Them [PDF]
, 2015 Gun violence exacts a lethal toll on public health. This paper focuses on reducing access to firearms by dangerous offenders, contributing original empirical data on the gun transactions that arm offenders in Chicago.
Harold A. Pollack +2 more
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Urban safety, community healing & gun violence reduction: the advance peace model
Urban Transformations, 2021 Cities around the world continue to grapple with safety, security and the role for law enforcement in reducing gun crime. Recent calls for alternatives to militarized policing in cities and addressing racism in urban crime policies and practices gives ...
Jason Corburn +2 more
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Assessing New York City's Youth Gun Violence Crisis: Crews - Volume II - CompStat for Violence Prevention Programs: Collecting Program Specific Data to Manage Performance and Inform Policy [PDF]
, 2015 The success or failure of community strategies to address the youth gun violence crisis is often attributed in part to how well the problem is understood and diagnosed.
Ashley Cannon, Stephanie Ueberall
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Psychology of Violence, 2021 Objective: Gun violence is a pressing public health concern, particularly in the United States. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a record-breaking year with 43,551 deaths attributed to gun violence in the U.S., with almost 20,000 classified as murder/unintentional death and more than 24,000 classified as suicide (Gun Violence Archive ...
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