Rationale and objective In the United States, gun violence claims thousands of lives each year and is a pressing public health issue. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, this study spatially analyzed county- and state-level predictors of yearly gun...
This study uses data on neighborhoods in four U.S. cities over five years to examine the relationship between fatal and non-fatal gun violence and rates of functional disability among men. Descriptive analyses indicate significant disparities in shooting rates across...
This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of focusing police crime prevention efforts on crime ‘hot spots’, and whether focused police actions at specific locations result in crime displacement (i.e. crime moving around the corner) or diffusion (i.e. crime...
Overall Study Motivation Between 2012 and 2015, the number of homicides committed with a firearm increased 12 percent to 12,979 across the 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, undated-b). Some...
COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The structure of daily life for most individuals in the United States (US) has changed dramatically. Businesses, schools, and entire industries have been forced to substitute in-person...
