Purpose To test whether land use and other features of places are associated with the spatial concentration of gun violence or its growth during epidemic periods. Methods The study uses shooting data from six major cities over a four-year period (2018–2021)....
Background Gun violence research is characterized by a dearth of data available for measuring key constructs. Social media data may offer a potential opportunity to significantly reduce that gap, but developing methods for deriving firearms-related constructs from...
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic carried with it an increase in violence in the United States and abroad. The proportion of violence cases involving firearms also increased during this time, yet little research has examined these effects using data from the...
Purpose of Review To examine the impacts of gun violence on early childhood development including early childhood mental health, cognitive development, and the assessment and treatment of survivors. Recent Findings The literature reflects that gun violence exposure is...
Objectives This paper examines the extent to which hotspots of shooting violence changed following the emergence of COVID-19. Methods This analysis uses Andresenʼs Spatial Point Pattern test on 1500 by 1500 foot grid cells, correcting for multiple comparisons, on a...
