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Fear, Risk, and the Drill: Investigating the Emotional and Cognitive Outcomes of Participating in Lockdown Practices Among School Personnel

open access: yesPsychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lockdown drills are widely implemented in U.S. public K‐12 schools, yet little is known about their impacts on school employees. This study examines how participation in lockdown drills and emergency response training impact faculty, staff, and administrators' fear of harm (both personal and altruistic) and their perceived risk of a school ...
Jaclyn Schildkraut   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Receptiveness and Responsiveness Toward Using Social Media for Safe Firearm Storage Outreach: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent firearm injury and death rates have increased over the past decade and remain major public health concerns in the United States.
Esther Lam   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Child Access Prevention Laws: Keeping Guns Out of Our Children\u27s Hands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This Note explores the Child Access Prevention ( CAP ) law and laws which are generally intended to limit children\u27s access to guns at home. The author proposes a model CAP law that should be enacted in the United States.
Shaffer, Rachel
core   +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

Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
core  

Automatic Matching of Bullet Land Impressions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report questioning the scientific validity of many forensic methods including firearm examination.
Carriquiry, Alicia   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Street crimes are thought to be influenced by changes in ambient lighting; yet, most studies have focused on small‐scale interventions in limited areas. It remains unclear whether enhanced lighting can improve safety on a larger, jurisdiction‐wide scale.
John M. MacDonald   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socio‐psychological determinants of beekeeper conflict with bee‐eaters

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study investigates factors influencing beekeepers’ use of lethal control against native bee‐eaters in Iran using the theory of planned behavior. Experience, social norms, intentions, and economic dependence significantly predicted using lethal control methods.
Danial Nayeri   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
wiley   +1 more source

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