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The Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy. We are researchers, practitioners, & advocates working to advance evidence-based gun violence prevention policies.
Joined July 2016
To stay up-to-date on our research, check out our website, where you'll find our latest newsletters:
riskbasedfirearmpolicy.org
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One in three individuals who committed homicide with a firearm had been heavily drinking when they murdered their victims, according to our new report on alcohol use as a risk factor for gun violence. Learn more from the full report:
publichealth.jhu.edu
Alcohol plays an outsize role in firearm fatalities: An estimated one in three individuals who committed homicide with a firearm had been heavily drinking when they killed their victims.
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RT @EFSGV: Halfway there! The Ed Fund needs your vote by March 31st. CREDO Mobile selected the Ed Fund to be one of its March Donations Pro….
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"This REIA instrument creates a space and a structured opportunity for those long-overdue conversations to occur,” says the Consortium's @jeffswansonduke. Check out the full report:
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"A public health approach has three important parts. The first is that it's based on science. The second is it's focused on prevention. And the third is that it's collaborative by nature." Wise words from Dr. Mark Rosenberg on @npratc. Check it out:
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Rosenberg, founding director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, about gun violence prevention and the CDC funding research on it.
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5 Key Challenges and Solutions around firearms and gender-based violence in the U.S. Read More from @amprog:
americanprogress.org
This fact sheet summarizes a recent Center for American Progress report on violence against women in the United States.
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"As many as two out of every three Californians have been exposed indirectly to gun violence in the course of their normal daily activities. " Read more about the latest work from @ucdavis Firearm Violence Research Center.
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"Gunshot-related spinal cord injuries have serious social and economic consequences in adulthood well beyond physical disability. ” New study in @JSpinalCordMed:
michiganmedicine.org
Researchers say pediatric injury prevention needs to be more of a public health focus.
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RT @Abt_Thomas: “Every city suffering from high rates of violent crime should have a permanent unit dedicated to violence reduction operati….
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At two meetings in November, Working Group outlines the importance of strong local leadership to a successful anti-violence strategy, and what the state and federal governments should do to provide...
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"Talking about firearm injury prevention, suicide and community violence can be difficult, and the language we use matters in how messages are received. " An important study from @EmmyBetz and colleagues:
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Good news from Pennsylvania as @GovernorTomWolf announces a $15 million investment in grassroots violence intervention programs across the commonwealth.
abc27.com
A look at the headlines from across the country and across the state would lead you to the conclusion that violent crime and gun violence is on the rise. On Wednesday, the state took what it hopes …
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"Emergency physician risk of occupational mortality: A scoping review" by Craig Goolsby of @USUhealthsci & @NCDMPH, with Vidya Lala, Riley Gebner, Nicole Dacuyan-Faucher, Nathan Charlton and Keke Schuler in @JACEPOpen
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"Gun homicide research: What we know and where we need to go" by @shanib44 of @JohnsHopkinsSPH/ @JHU_GVP and @AprilZeoli of @msu_scj in @HomicideStudies
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📆 December 10 @ 12p ET: the @JoyceFdn 's Lunch & Learn series presents new research from the Violence Prevention Research Program at @UCDavisHealth led by @Julia_Schleimer
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This webinar is part of a monthly LUNCH & LEARN series by the Joyce Foundation which aims to highlight emerging research on gun violence.
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"Stolen Firearms in Missouri Are Linked to the Repeal of Its Permit-to-Purchase Law" by Eugenio Weigend Vargas of @amprog:
americanprogress.org
Data show that the repeal of Missouri’s permit-to-purchase law is linked to higher levels of gun theft—a problem state officials must correct.
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Grant opportunity: Under the W.E.B. DuBois Program, the @OJPNIJ seeks applications for funding investigator-initiated research examining how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy interventions.
nij.ojp.gov
Notice Regarding NIJ Notices of Funding OpportunityAt this time, NIJ has removed all previously posted Notices of Funding Opportunity and associated webinars. Please check back to NIJ.OJP.gov and...
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"Mass murder in America: Trends, characteristics, explanations, and policy response" by Jack Levin of @Northeastern @NUCSSH in @HomicideStudies
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Mass murder, especially involving a firearm, has been a subject of increasing interest among criminologists over the past decade. Lacking an existing and reliab...
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RT @ARMS_GVP_RIG: "Restrictive state-level firearm policies are associated with less movement of firearms to other states, but with more mo….
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