Modeling Contagion Through Social Networks to Explain and Predict Gunshot Violence in Chicago, 2006 to 2014
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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8245
Abstract: Importance Every day in the United States, more than 200 people are murdered or assaulted with a firearm. Little research has considered the role of interpersonal ties in the pathways through which gun violence spreads.… read more here.
Keywords: violence; social contagion; gun violence; subjects gun ... See more keywords
Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial.
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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.5460
Abstract: Importance Structural racism has resulted in long-standing disinvestment and dilapidated environmental conditions in Black neighborhoods. Abandoned houses signal neglect and foster stress and fear for residents, weakening social ties and potentially contributing to poor health… read more here.
Keywords: violence; substance; safety; gun violence ... See more keywords
Evaluating Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws: When Is It Premature to Expect Population-Level Effects?
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DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.4909
Abstract: It is easy to describe the scale of gun violence in the US with large numbers and hyperbolic comparisons; more civilians have died from firearm injuries since 1968 than all the soldiers who perished in… read more here.
Keywords: gun; risk; gun violence; population ... See more keywords
Assessing the Gun Violence Archive as an Epidemiologic Data Source for Community Firearm Violence in 4 US Cities.
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DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.16545
Abstract: Key Points Question Is the Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection group, a valid source of data for community firearm violence, including firearm homicide and nonfatal shootings that result from interpersonal violence? Findings In… read more here.
Keywords: violence; violence archive; gun violence; community firearm ... See more keywords
Stop Posturing and Start Problem Solving: A Call for Research to Prevent Gun Violence.
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DOI: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.1.pfor1-1801
Abstract: Gun violence is a major cause of preventable injury and death in the United States, leading to more than 33,000 deaths each year. However, gun violence prevention is an understudied and underfunded area of research.… read more here.
Keywords: violence; research; posturing start; stop posturing ... See more keywords
An emerging youth-centered model of community resilience in communities impacted by gun violence: Power through Black Community and Unity.
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DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12647
Abstract: Studies commonly examine resilience as an outcome by way of measuring the degree to which protective factors maintain individuals' well-being despite the presence of significant risk. In this study, we developed a model of community… read more here.
Keywords: resilience; community resilience; community; gun violence ... See more keywords
Youth exposure to violence involving a gun: evidence for adverse childhood experience classification
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DOI: 10.1007/s10865-019-00053-0
Abstract: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have historically included child maltreatment, household dysfunction, and other critical issues known to impact children negatively. Although youth experiences with violence are broadly captured in some ACE measures, youth exposure to… read more here.
Keywords: violence; gun violence; exposure violence; youth exposure ... See more keywords
Introduction to the special issue on Gun violence: addressing a critical public health challenge
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DOI: 10.1007/s10865-019-00075-8
Abstract: Nearly 40,000 lives are lost in gun-related deaths in the United States each year with another approximately 70,000 American sustaining gun related injuries https://www.cdc. gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm; Weinberger et al. (2015). Whether the result of unintentional injuries,… read more here.
Keywords: violence; gun violence; issue; public health ... See more keywords
Neighborhood Gun Violence and Birth Outcomes in Chicago
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DOI: 10.1007/s10995-019-02765-w
Abstract: ObjectivesTo examine the association between gun violence and birth outcomes among women in Chicago.MethodsUsing a 5-year set of birth files (2011–2015) merged with census and police data, birth outcomes including low birth weight (LBW, BW… read more here.
Keywords: violence; hispanic women; birth; gun violence ... See more keywords
Gun violence and substance abuse
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DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2017.02.002
Abstract: Abstract Gun violence and substance abuse are prevalent, widespread public health issues that have recently received a great deal of media and political attention. In order to better understand how these phenomena are linked, this… read more here.
Keywords: gun violence; substance abuse; violence substance; gun ... See more keywords
Gun- and Non-Gun-Related Violence Exposure and Risk for Subsequent Gun Carrying Among Male Juvenile Offenders.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.01.012
Abstract: OBJECTIVE Although studies have found that youth exposed to violence are more likely to carry guns than non-exposed youth, this association could be due to common causal factors or other pre-existing differences between individuals. In… read more here.
Keywords: violence; gun carrying; exposure; gun ... See more keywords