by Admin2 | Aug 27, 2026
Objectives To examine the independent and joint effects of state legislation on minimum age for purchasing handguns and background checks on the suicide of young adults aged 18 to 20 years. Methods We used negative binomial regressions with fixed effects for year and...
by Admin2 | Feb 16, 2026
In their article “Mental Disorders, Gun Ownership, and Gun Carrying Among Soldiers After Leaving the Army, 2016–2019,” Bossarte et al. (p. 1855) report that there is no overall association between mental illness and firearm availability. However, the findings suggest...
by Admin2 | Feb 6, 2026
Objectives To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods From July 2021 to April 2023, we manually reviewed publicly available records on all 2015–2020 injurious...
by Admin2 | Feb 6, 2026
The 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted what criminologist Lawrence Sherman called the Second Great Awakening of “both public and scholarly sentiment against avoidable police shootings.” (The First Great...
by Admin2 | Jan 2, 2025
Objectives To measure differences in suicide rates across race/ethnicity, age, and sex groups in Chicago, Illinois, from 2015 to 2021. Methods We calculated the incidence rate and annual percentage change in suicides among Asian, Black, Latino/a, and White persons in...
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