Former industrial cities facing economic challenges and depopulation often experience high levels of firearm and other forms of violence. Within these cities, violent crime often clusters in neighborhoods affected by high levels of vacant and abandoned housing. This...
Purpose Individuals with poor physical and mental health may face elevated risk for suicide, particularly suicide by firearm. Methods This retrospective cohort study used statewide, longitudinally linked emergency department (ED) patient record and mortality data to...
Purpose Firearm mortality is a significant problem in the United States. Previous studies have largely focused on firearm mortality at the national or state level, leaving open the question of within-state variation. This study examined firearm mortality within...
Background Homicide contributes substantially to the burden of death in the US and remains a key contributor to the gap in white-black life expectancy. It has been hypothesized that “broken-windows” policing is associated with lower homicide rates and that...
Objectives We assessed whether New York City’s gun-related homicide rates in the 1990s were associated with a range of social determinants of homicide rates. Methods We used cross-sectional time-series data for 74 New York City police precincts from 1990...
