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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Gun violence"”.
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Three essays on gun violence in the United States
Gun violence, especially shootings, is a significant public health and safety concern in the United States. After a period of a relatively low level of shooting violence from 2000 to 2015, gun violence has been on the rise, especially since 2020. However, there are still many unknowns regarding …
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An Urban Bioethics Survey of the Physician/Gun Violence Intersection
Data consistently shows that firearm violence affects minority populations disproportionately. In the 1970s, firearm injury related death was the 13th leading cause of death in America. The problem has only worsened, costing the US economy almost $230 million a year and is now the second-leading …
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"What Were You Doing To Get Shot?" Exploring The Perceptions And Experiences Of Critical Care Trauma Nurses On Gun Violence And Caring For Persons With Gun Violence Injuries
Rising gun violence (GV) means critical care trauma nurses (CCTNs) are caring for those most impacted, navigating complex feelings, family needs and very sick patients. I asked, “What can I do from the bedside?” Grounded in the socio-ecological model and complexity theory, a qualitative exploration …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
… the framing of serious mental illness (SMI) and gun violence focused on the single case of the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting perpetrated by James Eagan Holmes. At the time, it was the most devastating mass shooting in U.S. history with 58 injured and 12 killed. The overarching question guiding the …
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Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence
… fundamental work to the examination of gun violence through an investigation of prevalence, trends, and likely place-based dynamics that explain the spatial patterning of gun violence in Kansas City, MO over a 5-year period (2015-2019). Specifically, this dissertation assesses 1) the …
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Gun Violence in Black and White: State Gun Laws and Race-Specific Mortality Rates
… analyzes the relationships between four state gun laws—universal background checks, waiting periods, may-issue permitting, and violent misdemeanor prohibitions—and firearm homicide and suicide rates among Blacks and Whites in the United States. Using eighteen years of publicly available data, …
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Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis The Role Physicians can Play in Keeping Communities Safe
Gun violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Research shows that violence functions similarly to a communicable disease. An exposure such as someone witnessing violence or being a victim of violence is a major risk factor to the exposed person becoming a perpetrator of violence …
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An examination of the disparate impact of neighborhood characteristics on routine and gang-involved gun violence
… turnover, and racial/ethnic composition on gun crime. There have been limited efforts, however, to examine the extent to which these effects might vary based on the nature of gun crime—particularly in communities outside of major cities like Chicago or St. Louis. This study attempts to …
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Lessons Learned: A Qualitative Study of School Social Workers’ Experiences Providing Crisis Response and Recovery After Targeted Gun Violence
Objective: Targeted gun violence in schools, once uncommon tragedies, are now regular occurrences in the United States. Since 2018, there have been 533 incidents of gun violence in schools that resulted in death or injuries (Everytown for Gun Safety, 2022). Crisis response and recovery for these …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
Ninety Americans die every day due to gun violence. This violence is a public health burden resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence …
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A friend that sticks closer than a brother: a hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of resilience in Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence
… Black bereaved mothers that have lost a child to gun violence. Semi-structured interviews were combined with hermeneutic phenomenology, the communication theory of resilience, and the strong Black woman collective theory. Results revealed that Black bereaved mothers used interpersonal and …
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Exploring the Perceptions, Uses, Rhetoric, and Reality of ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology Among Police Officers and Analysts
After two years of historic levels of gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri, this thesis asks how local police officers and analysts experience, utilize, and conceive of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system. Using qualitative and exploratory methods, the study finds that officers and analysts …
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The Doll Project As A Liberatory Art Intervention For Conscious Raising And Trauma Relief In A Chicago Marked By Violence
… and resist systemic oppression and community violence; as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. Participants engaged in community-based art therapy to build and heal communities impacted by gun violence; using an ecological model. This "Doll Project" developed as a …
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Power through Black community and unity: Examining processes of resilience among Black youth
… life circumstances, including challenges such as gun violence. Gun violence—one form of community violence—is a public health issue that affects thousands of individuals, particularly Black youth; yet, they are able to sustain their well-being and adapt. Most resilience studies in this area adopt …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River Medico-Legal Laboratory in 2009 and their investigative outcome by 2014
South Africa has a very long history of gun violence, particularly politically motivated. The politically motivated gun violence did subside after 1994, however there was an increase in criminal gun violence. In 2004 Dr Liebenberg from the University of Cape Town conducted a study on the …
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Three Decades of Epidemic Black Gun Homicide Victimization in Toronto: Analyzing Causes and Consequences of a Criminological Approach
This dissertation analyzes Black gun violence and homicide victimization in Toronto from a health equity and critical race perspective rather than prevailing criminological theories. Young Black men in Toronto are estimated to be five times more likely to become victims of homicidal violence …
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State Legislation and Mass Shooting Prevention: A Twenty-Seven Year Study on Extreme Risk Protection Orders and Extreme Risk Protection Order Legislative Bans in the United States
… known as Red Flag Laws, Extreme Risk Laws, and Gun Violence Restraining Orders), as they have gained popularity in the states in terms of preventing gun violence and mass shootings. This study specifically looked at the proposal, passing, and death of Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO) and …
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Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: an exploratory study
… of literature has been built around the topic of gun violence in the United States. The characteristics of communities, victims, and offenders have each been used to explain variation in the likelihood and frequency of gun crime. Less attention has been given to the factors associated with …
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The nature of violence: exploring how community and incident characteristics influence the likelihood that gun crimes become multi-victim events
Gun crime continues to represent a substantial threat to public safety in the United States. Firearms are disproportionately involved in most crimes of violence, particularly murder (Collins et al., 2017; Cook & Pollack, 2017; Goldsmith et al., 2022; Johnson et al., 2021), and firearm-related …
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